“Don’t kill your gran by catching coronavirus and then passing it on.” Europe’s second wave of the coronavirus has mainly affected young people but infections are beginning to leak into older age groups.
Since the summer, Europe’s second wave of the coronavirus has, who usually have mild or no symptoms. But infections are beginning to leak into older age groups, the latest data show, often spreading from younger to older members of the same family.
Cases among those aged over 65 are increasing in most European countries, according to data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. As a result, hospitalizations and deaths—which stayed low for much of the summer while infections spread among young people less likely to fall severely ill—are starting to rise too., but that is partly because of better detection.
Still, in the U.K., infections among older age groups rose sharply in late September, according to research by Imperial College London. Hospitalizations of Covid-19 patients more than doubled during September, to more than 2,000, according to official data. Deaths reached 588 in the month through Sept. 28, more than twice the number in August., 547 people died in the first week of October alone. In the week that ended Sept. 1, by comparison, only 159 had died.
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