The current rate of transmission in the 53 countries of the European Region is of serious concern, Kluge said.
The incidence of COVID-19 in European countries is approaching record levels, which is exacerbated by the more transmissible Delta variant.
This was stated by the Director of the WHO European Bureau Hans Kluge, according to Reuters.
“We are back in the epicenter,” he said and clarified that the increase in incidence is associated with insufficient vaccination coverage, as well as weakening public health and social measures.
According to him, hospitalization rates higher in countries with lower vaccination rates. The incidence in Europe has been rising for almost six weeks in a row. At the moment, about 250,000 cases and 3,600 deaths are detected per day.
- The World Health Organization has counted more than five million deaths from the consequences of COVID-19 since monitoring the spread of the pandemic. There are more than 246.9 million confirmed cases of coronavirus worldwide.
- Also, the Director General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adan Ghebreyesus urged the world to learn from the coronavirus pandemic and prepare for a new one. The emergence of another virus on Earth, the spread of which will be impossible to contain, is indisputable from the point of view of biology.
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