{"id":9766,"date":"2021-08-30T22:09:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T18:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/covid-surge-reaches-critical-level-in-33-european-countries\/"},"modified":"2021-08-30T22:09:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T18:09:16","slug":"covid-surge-reaches-critical-level-in-33-european-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/covid-surge-reaches-critical-level-in-33-european-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID surge reaches critical level in 33 European countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/COVID-surge-reaches-critical-level-in-33-European-countries.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>&#8220;The epidemiological picture across the 53 countries it monitors &#8216;is mixed&#8217; with a &#8220;greater than 10% increase in 14-day case incidence,&#8221; Dr. <strong>Hans Kluge<\/strong>, regional director of WHO Europe, told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Kluge said that &#8220;several countries are starting to observe an increased burden on hospitals&#8221; and that &#8220;a particularly steep increase in cases&#8221; is observed in the Balkans, the Caucasus, and the Central Asian countries.<\/p>\n<p>The last week also saw an &#8220;11% increase in the number of deaths in the region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So far, the region has recorded more than 64 million confirmed cases and 1.3 million deaths. A projection that a further 236,000 people could lose their lives to the pandemic across Europe by December 1 \u2014 issued last week by the University of Washington&#8217;s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) \u2014 was described as &#8220;reliable&#8221; by Kluge on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n        n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n        'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '800789640666009');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/>https:\/\/report.az\/en\/other-countries\/covid-surge-reaches-critical-level-in-33-european-countries\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] &#8220;The epidemiological picture across the 53 countries it monitors &#8216;is mixed&#8217; with a &#8220;greater than 10% increase in 14-day case incidence,&#8221; Dr. Hans Kluge, regional director of WHO Europe, told reporters. Kluge said that &#8220;several countries are starting to observe an increased burden on hospitals&#8221; and that &#8220;a particularly steep increase in cases&#8221; is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/covid-surge-reaches-critical-level-in-33-european-countries\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID surge reaches critical level in 33 European countries<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[248,390,3375,1473,1307,1821,2755],"class_list":["post-9766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","tag-countries","tag-covid","tag-critical","tag-european","tag-level","tag-reaches","tag-surge","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}