236,000 new deaths from Covid by December 1 on the European continent, this is a "reliable" projection, recognized the World Health Organization (WHO), in view of the recent "stagnation" in the rate of vaccination on the continent.
"Last week, the death toll in the region increased by 11%, with a reliable projection predicting 236,000 deaths in Europe by December 1" adding to the 1.3 million deaths already caused by the pandemic on the Old Continent, said WHO Europe director Hans Kluge at a press conference.
Three quarters of caregivers vaccinated
Of the 53 states in the Europe region, according to WHO geographic criteria, 50 are affected by the Delta variant, 33 have reported an increase of more than 10% in the incidence of cases over two weeks, he said. stressed, while the rate of vaccination has fallen by 14% in the past six weeks "due to a lack of access to vaccines in some countries and a lack of acceptance of vaccines in others", a- he noted, calling for "to increase production, share doses and improve access to vaccines in Member States". If three quarters of caregivers in the whole of Europe are vaccinated, in some European countries they are only one in ten, according to the UN organization. “Skepticism about vaccines and denial of science are preventing us from stabilizing this crisis.It is useless and is not good for anyone ”, pleaded the director, who practiced medicine for several years before committing to Doctors Without Borders.
According to WHO data, in eight months, nearly 850 million doses have been administered in the region stretching to Central Asia, allowing nearly half of the population to be fully immunized.
In the European Union, 58.7% of inhabitants, or 262.3 million people, are fully vaccinated, according to an AFP count on Monday.
