Copenhagen: Region 53 countries in Europe and Asia are facing “real threats” for the revival of the Coronavirus pandemic in the coming weeks or have experienced a wave of new infections, the head of the regional office of the World Health Organization said Thursday.
Hans Kluge said the number of cases began to approach the recording level again and the transmission rate in the region, which stretched as far as in the east when the former Soviet Republic in Central Asia, was “great worries.” “We are at another critical point of the revival of Pandemi,” said Kluge to reporters from WHO Europe Headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark.
“Europe returned to the center of the pandemic, where we were one year ago.” He said the difference now is that health authorities know more about viruses and have a better tool for fighting it.
Relax prevention steps and low vaccination rates in several regions describe the latest surge, he said.
Kluge said the inpatient level because Covid-19 in the 53 region of the country more than doubled over the past week.
If the trajectory continues, the area can see 500,000 pandemic deaths again in February, he said.
Who Europe said the area counted nearly 1.8 million new weekly cases, increased by around 6% from the previous week, and 24,000 weekly deaths of Covid-19, – a 12% increase.
Kluge said the countries in the region were in the “various stages of vaccination launches” and throughout the average area of ​​47% of people were fully vaccinated.
Only eight countries have 70% of their population are fully vaccinated.
“We have to change our tactics, from reacting to the Covid-19 surge, to prevent them from happening from the start,” Kluge said.
Who is the headquarters in Geneva on Wednesday reported that cases have increased in Europe for the fifth week in a row, making it the only territory of the world where Covid – the level of infection has so far been the highest in Europe, which reported around 192 new cases per 100,000 people .
Some countries in Central and East Europe have seen daily cases of shooting in recent weeks.