Geneva: The World Health Organization said that the Coronavirus case jumped 11% in Europe last week, the only area in the world where Covid-19 continued to increase since mid-October.
In a weekly assessment of the pandemic released on Tuesday, the UN health agency said the global case and death had increased by around 6%, with around 3.6 million new infections and 51.00 new deaths were reported in the previous week.
WHO’s Europe Director Dr.
Hans Kluge warned that without urgent steps taken immediately, the continent could see 700,000 deaths again in the spring.
“The European region remains in the grip of the Covid-19 pandemic, ” said Kluge, called for countries to increase vaccination and take other control steps such as covering and sanging social to avoid the last” Lockdown resort.
‘”He noted that while more than 1 billion doses of vaccines have been given throughout the European region, which stretches to Central Asia, the range of vaccination coverage varies from 10% to 80%.
In last week, Austria, the Netherlands and Belgium all adopted steps Tight includes partial locking to try to stem the latest Coronavirus waves.
Germany will also record more than 100,000 Covid-19 deaths this week, with some politicians now calling for vaccine mandates, such as those ordered in Austria.
Globally, who reported that Covid-19 in Asia Southeast and the Middle East fell 11% and 9% each.
The biggest decline in the death of the Coronavirus in the last week was seen in Africa, where death fell 30%, continuing the trend to decline in Covid-19 which first began at the end of June Stay stable in America, which said the number of deaths rose around 19%.
The agency said the Delta variant was easier to spread Stay the main version of Covid-19 globally.
Of the more than 840,000 sequences uploaded to the largest public virus database last week, around 99.8% were Delta variants.
Other variants including MU, lambda and gamma are made less than 1% even though they continue to make a significant proportion of sequences of Latin America.