Controlling the Covid-19 pandemic and then successfully tackling it presents major obstacles that must be overcome. The first difficulty concerns the social fatigue shown by the populations of the countries with the result that the measures against Covid-19 are relaxed, while the necessary discipline is still required from all.
• Given this social fatigue, death statistics are now a common occurrence that no longer raises concerns to mobilize the wider public. Deaths from Covid-19 have become part of normalcy.
• Given the long-term fatigue of citizens from the repeated restrictive measures to deal with the pandemic, governments are reluctant in the face of political costs to toughen their policy because it will lower their repercussions.
• The pandemic is a global phenomenon, and tackling it depends not only on what each country must do, but also on what all countries must do together.
• Governments need a new elaboration and implementation of a new strategy that will be adapted each time to the new conditions under development. This is the biggest difficulty they face because they do not know the degree of resilience of their societies, with the result that any of their policies are seeing and doing.
The statistics of cases and deaths
Observing the global Reported Cases and Deaths by Country or Territory (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/) we find that the recent performance of the EU member states is better (excluding Greece, Western Balkans) showing that they have now managed to control the Covid-19 pandemic.
On the other hand, the countries of the UK, India, Russia, Iran, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam do not seem to be doing well.
The basic protection of the population in the strengthening of the Covid-19 pandemic is the continuous increase of the vaccinated in the entire adult population. The World Health Organization (WHO) indicates that high vaccination rates are necessary but not in themselves capable of controlling the pandemic.
The good results come as a combination of increased vaccination rates with the implementation of the necessary protection measures.
This has been demonstrated in the cases of Israel and the UK, two countries that have rapidly advanced their vaccination programs to their populations, but when they have not properly and fully implemented the necessary restrictive measures resulting in compact unvaccinated populations, the effectiveness of the vaccine declines with the passing of time.
It is therefore necessary to implement political and social conciliation for the implementation of the necessary restrictive measures and increase the number of vaccinated.
The WHO predicts 280,000 additional deaths from Covid-19 by the end of 2021 and that is why EU member states are now adopting the mandatory vaccine dose.
As for the big economies, China is holding a rally to deal successfully with the pandemic, to the detriment of the EU and the US.
