What Explains Vaccination Rates in EBRD Regions?

Credit: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

LONDON, Dec 8 2021 (IPS) – Officially reported deaths from started to rise again in autumn 2021 in a number of economies in the . While in advanced economies in Europe the mortality rate has remained low despite the pick-up in Covid-19 cases, in the EBRD regions the mortality and infection rates continued to move in tandem.

Reflecting this, daily Covid-19 deaths per million population were four times higher in the EBRD regions than in advanced Europe as of November 2021.