![\\"logo\\"](\\"/img/logo-dpa-factchecking.svg\\"/) *About ![\\"IFCN](\\"/img/ifcn-certificate.png\\"/) ![\\"EFCSN](\\"/img/efcsn- certificate.png\\"/) # The second wave of Covid-19 spares no continent 13.11.2020, 16:43 (CET) “No 2nd wave, neither in Asia, nor in Africa, nor in Scandinavia, nor in Russia. Curious, right? “, asks a Facebook user in Switzerland. (saved version: here) ASSESSMENT : The publication is misleading. The rebound of the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting varying degrees, all continents. And on a regional or national scale, Scandinavia and Russia are not spared, far from it. FACTS : Statistics published by the World Health Organization (WHO), the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) or again Johns Hopkins University (United States), constantly updated, all indicate that Covid-19 spares no continent. The African and Asian continents are less affected than the continents American and European. But this does not mean at all that they escape the 2nd wave of coronavirus. So, if the pandemic seems more or less under control in Southeast Asia, this is – for example – not yet the case in India, which is part of the Asian continent. Since the end of October, some 644,000 have been detected there. new cases of Covid-19, bringing the total number of people there infected since January 2020 at around 8.7 million – and that of deaths at 128,000. Africa presents a very contrasting portrait, but it does not escape the rule, as the author of the message on Facebook claims. The situation at Morocco, for example, continues to worry. There were approximately 63,000 new cases of Covid-19 in two weeks, out of a total of 270,000 since January. 4,500 people died there from Covid-19 in total. In Europe, Scandinavia is also suffering from the 2nd wave of Covid-19. THE three countries that form the region – Denmark, Sweden and Norway – are concerned, especially Denmark and Sweden, which both appear in “ European red zone. In Sweden, for example, there were an average of 456 new cases of Covid-19 per day and per 100,000 inhabitants during a two-week period which ended on November 11. It's much less that in France, it is close to the British level and it is more than in Germany. Russia, finally, is being hit hard by the second wave of Covid-19. According to the European agency ECDC, it recorded 277,000 new cases of Covid-19 over the past two weeks. In total, 1.858 million residents Russians have so far been affected by the disease in 2020; 32,000 of them They died from it. \--- Links: Message: (archived: WHO statistics: mJLInQjOLNGPWsMvX5IQ-D9L7UH9K6zaV7MpbR4SBdJquz4ZToBoCR04QAvD_BwE (archived: ECDC statistics: distribution-2019-ncov-cases (archived: Johns Hopkins University Statistics: (archived: WHO India: (archived: WHO Morocco: (archived: EU Sweden: (archived: WHO Russia: (archived: \--- Contact the dpa fact-checking team: factcheck- belgium@dpa.com powered by dpa-newslab | Imprint | Privacy | About:
No 2nd wave neither in Asia nor in Africa nor in Scandinavia nor in Russia Curious right asks a Facebook user in Switzerland