The outbreak of Wuhan pneumonia (novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19) in Europe is serious, the World health Organization (WHO) said today, adding that the pace of vaccination in Europe is “unacceptably slow” and that the surge in infection rates in the region is “worrying “.
AFP reports that WHO Europe Director Hans Kluge said in a statement that “vaccines are the best way to get rid of the Vulgaris pandemic. However, the roll-out of these vaccines has been unacceptably slow.”
WHO’s European zone includes 53 countries and territories, including Russia and several Central Asian countries. According to the organization, only 10 percent of the total population in the European zone has currently received the first dose of the vaccine and 4 percent has completed a complete vaccination.
WHO said the slow deployment of vaccinations is “delaying the Epidemic” and said the outbreak in Europe is “more worrying than we have seen in months.
The WHO said the weekly number of new cases in Europe had fallen below 1 million five weeks ago, but last week, the outbreak heated up in most European countries, with 1.6 million new cases confirmed in a week.
The WHO said the total number of deaths in Europe “is rapidly approaching 1 million, and the total number of confirmed cases will exceed 45 million.
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