Corona defeated! These 7 European countries have already done it! Why is Germany in chaos?
While infection figures are rising in Germany and more and more Covid 19 patients are flooding into hospitals, the situation is anything but relaxed in most other countries as well. In many countries, the Corona wave expected in autumn has already started. In Germany, the incidence value is now at a high of 213.6, but what about other European countries?
These are the countries with the lowest incidence values in Europe
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To see where Corona is best controlled, the values of the German portal “Corona in Zahlen” were evaluated. This portal receives its information from the prestigious Johns Hopkins University and also from Our World in Data, a non-profit organization, from researchers at Oxford University, updated daily. There you can see that currently Spain has the lowest infection rate in Europe, with an incidence value of just 44.7. The southern European country has a vaccination rate of just over 80 percent. According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), 30.1 per cent of Spaniards under the age of 18 have now also received at least one vaccination against Covid-19. This is the second highest rate in this age group in the EU. In the current Corona wave, outbreaks among adolescents and children at schools in particular are considered to be one of the factors driving up infections.
Fight against coronavirus in Malta also successful
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With an incidence score of 50, Malta has the second lowest incidence rate in Europe. At the same time, the vaccination rate there is 83.2 percent, which is the second highest in Europ. However, it is relatively easy for Malta to isolate itself, as it is a relatively small island state. Since July of this year, all unvaccinated visitors to the island must first go into quarantine. In the beginning, the country only accepted vaccination certificates from the EU, Switzerland and Great Britain. Even nowadays, a quarantine is only bypassed if tourists can prove they have had a booster vaccination.
Sweden: Ranked 3rd in European incidence
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Sweden has the third lowest incidence values in Europe, with a value of 54.9, which is particularly surprising because the values in neighbouring Norway and Denmark are significantly higher, with values of 178.8 and 277.7 respectively. Nevertheless, Sweden has managed to keep its figures at a low level. This is particularly surprising in view of the fact that only 68.2 percent of the population have been vaccinated against the coronavirus to date. This is just above the EU average. During the first wave, the country kept restaurants and schools open and took a completely different course in the pandemic. It was only in the second wave that stricter regulations were introduced, because the death toll had been significantly higher than in neighbouring countries. But at present, the situation now appears to be well controlled for this.