The level of vaccination in Europe is insufficient to avoid a resurgence of the pandemic, the European branch of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday, also calling for the "
mistake
" of the rise in cases
to be avoided.
during the summer of 2020.
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Vaccination coverage is far from sufficient to protect the region from a resurgence,
" warned WHO's European director, Hans Kluge, in an online press conference, at a time when 30% of the population in the region has received a first dose of vaccine and 17% are fully vaccinated.