The World Health Organization was alarmed on Thursday November 4 at the "
very worrying
" rate of transmission of Covid-19 currently in Europe, which could lead to half a million additional deaths on the continent by February.
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"
We are, again, at the epicenter,
" lamented WHO Europe director Hans Kluge during an online press conference.
"
The current rate of transmission in the 53 countries of the European region is of great concern (...) if we stay on this trajectory, we could see another half a million deaths from Covid-19 in the region from here. February,
”he said.
