The death toll rose eleven percent in the past week. By December 1, the World Health Organization (WHO) fears almost a quarter of a million new deaths.
Copenhagen – The World Health Organization (WHO) expects 236,000 deaths from Covid-19 in the Europe region from the end of August to December 1. That said WHO European Director Hans Kluge at a press conference on Monday in Copenhagen. In the region, which includes 53 countries in Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, the number of deaths rose by eleven percent in the past week alone, according to the Belgian. The forecast comes from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle.
WHO gives gloomy prognosis – and gives the background
The reason for the increase is above all the highly contagious Delta variant, easing of the corona measures in many countries and the increased travel volume over the summer, said Kluge. Kluge continued, particularly in the countries of the Balkans, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
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