Despite a 36% drop in global morbidity from Corona in the last three months, according to the Reuters news agency, Europe seems to be absorbing the most damage: the Delta variant is contagious at a rate of 50 million people every 90 days.
"We think that from today until the end of 2022, this is the point where we will take control of this virus - a landmark where we can significantly reduce serious illness and death," said Maria van Krakow, an expert epidemiologist at the World Health Organization, a few days ago.
Russia
As mentioned, Eastern Europe is in the midst of another and particularly severe wave, which is bringing most countries in the region closer to record numbers of morbidity and mortality.
About 38,000 people have been confirmed in Russia and another 1,145 have died as a result of the virus in the past day, while 242,000 have been registered since the onset of the epidemic.
Many districts in the country are considering imposing a curfew and expanding the state of emergency, with the focus of the outbreak being in the capital Moscow which was in full closure until last Saturday.
Restrictions have now been partially lifted under a green label policy, similar to Israel.
At the same time, the countries of the former Soviet Union suffer from relatively low rates of vaccination, which experts believe is responsible for the dramatic increase in morbidity.
Germany
The strongest country in the European Union and a preferred destination for Israelis is in the midst of a fourth wave, which has returned a number of districts to a policy of restrictions.
The infection rate is 201.1 per 100,000 people - the highest since the epidemic began.
As a result, and according to local reports, doctors have ordered a postponement of surgeries for several weeks so they can deal with the resulting load.
In the last 24 hours, about 20,000 cases of Corona have been confirmed, and a weekly average of 26,300 are diagnosed per day, half of which belongs to Berlin, the capital of the country.
The head of the Bavarian province, one of the focal points of the disease, demanded more decisive action in the face of the new record, and called for a focus and return to compulsory testing in nursing homes.
Netherlands
Germany's western neighbor is also struggling, with very high numbers of 11,300 newly verified in the last day, and with a weekly average of about ten thousand diagnosed daily.
Despite this, the restrictions are not particularly severe - in closed places a mask is required, and in places with a crowd there is a policy of a green mark.
Although Israel is lagging behind in the fourth wave and is preparing to receive thousands of tourists in the coming days, there is one statistic that is still worrying and is related to the global immunization rate, which so far stands at around 50% of the world's population.
Until this detail improves - the world will have a hard time leaving the plague behind.