– One other wave of COVID-19 infections could have begun in Europe as circumstances start to tick up throughout the area, the World Well being Group and European Centre for Illness Prevention and Management (ECDC) stated on Wednesday.
“Though we aren't the place we had been one yr in the past, it's clear that the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be not over,” WHO‘s Europe director, Hans Kluge, and ECDC‘s director, Andrea Ammon, stated in a joint assertion.
“We're sadly seeing indicators rising once more in Europe, suggesting that one other wave of infections has begun.”
WHO‘s region-wise knowledge confirmed that solely Europe recorded an increase in COVID-19 circumstances within the week ended Oct. 2, clocking a rise of 8% from the prior week.
Public well being consultants have warned that vaccine fatigue and confusion over out there vaccines will probably restrict booster uptake within the area.
Hundreds of thousands of individuals throughout Europe stay unvaccinated in opposition to COVID-19, the WHO and ECDC famous.
They urged European international locations to manage each flu and COVID-19 vaccines forward of an anticipated surge in circumstances of seasonal influenza.
“There was no time to lose,” the WHO and ECDC stated, including that susceptible teams, together with folks over 60 years previous, pregnant girls and people with co-morbidities, ought to get vaccinated in opposition to each influenza and COVID-19.
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