COPENHAGEN: The World Health Organization on Thursday slammed Europe's vaccine rollout as"unacceptably slow" and said it was prolonging the COVID-19 pandemic as the region sees a"worrying" surge in coronavirus infections.
The WHO's European region comprises 53 countries and territories and includes Russia and several Central Asian nations.As of Thursday, more than 152 million doses have been injected in the WHO European region, representing 25.5 per cent of doses administered worldwide, according to AFP's database.On average, 0.31 per cent of the population in the European region receives a dose every day. While this rate is almost double the global rate of 0.
"The likelihood of new variants of concern occurring increases with the rate at which the virus is replicating and spreading, so curbing transmission through basic disease control actions is crucial," Dorit Nitzan, WHO Europe's regional emergency director, said in the statement.
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