WHO calls for intensified measures over new variant

Speaking at a press conference, the WHO's regional director for Europe, Hans Kluge, called the current situation "a tipping-point in the course of the pandemic," as Europe was both challenged by surging cases and new strains of the virus causing Covid-19.

"Without increased control to slow its spread, there will be an increased impact on already stressed and pressurised health facilities," he said. WHO Europe also estimates that excess mortality in 2020 was five times that of 2019 and three times that of 2018.European countries rolling out the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine should be flexible on the time between the first and second doses, Mr Kluge said.

"It is important that such a decision represents a safe compromise between the limited global production capacity at the moment, and the imperative for governments to protect as many people as possible while reducing the burden of any subsequent wave on the health systems," he said.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

Someone would want to tell them fools to stop making tik tok videos. Cancer screening and hospital appointments cancelled and we have to watch this nonsense. Time to wake up!

This is fastest mutating virus I have ever heard of, yet has 99.8% for me to survive it. Says a lot about the killer virus! Not even the Spanish flu mutated this quick. I smell some bullshit

Some pandemic..🇮🇪🦊

What does he suggest...staying in bed?

🦊🇮🇪

Sorry, we're sending 60k off to school

Yet closing schools fully isn't one thing we can do to deal with it?

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