Major European countries seeing increase in COVID cases in spite of high vaccination rates

Several nations appear to have reversed their earlier declines.

March 19, 2022

Multiple major European nations are seeing an increase in SARS-CoV-2 transmission rates even after a sharp decline in cases over the last several weeks coupled with high vaccination rates.

The United Kingdom has seen its daily average cases more than triple since the start of March, with an average of roughly 75,000 new cases per day presently, up from around 33,000 at the beginning of the month.

Italy is also seeing another uprise in cases which began around the same time; like the U.K., Italy had seen a sharp drop in cases following a surge of the omicron variant of the virus, only to reverse course around the beginning of March.

Germany, meanwhile, this week set a new record of confirmed COVID cases in that country. Germany’s rates had already remained notably elevated over the past few months in contrast to its European neighbors; the country did not record a dramatic plunge in COVID cases like Italy and the U.K., among others.

All three countries, meanwhile, have notably high vaccination rates; both the U.K. and Germany have recorded roughly 75 percent of their populations being “fully vaccinated,” while in Italy that number is around 80 percent.

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