BBCNEWS BBC News December 30, 2021 15:12:00
Of cases in western europe, but it may not be as severe. we are seeing a very rapid increase in the number of new covid—i9 cases. of course we expected that anyway because of the holiday season, but with the rapid spread of 0micron we are seeing that very much accelerated, and that is especially in western europe, where we are seeing countries like the united kingdom, france, denmark, portugal, spain, italy, all seeing cases now outstripping what they have seen at any previous time during the pandemic. and it's early days yet, but that's significantly going to put health systems under pressu...