Hans Kluge, Director of the European Bureau of the World Health Organization (WHO), predicted the death of half a million people in Europe due to COVID-19. He told in interview “BBC” that about 500 thousand people could die in winter if countries do not tighten restrictions.
Kluge said that WHO is very alarmed at the increased rate of spread of the coronavirus in Europe, so experts recommend continuing to wear masks and get vaccinated for everyone who has not yet been vaccinated.
According to him, the next wave of COVID-19 in Europe is observed due to the approaching cold weather, low vaccination rates in a number of countries and the emergence of more infectious strains. Kluge also called for a legislative and public debate on mandatory vaccination. “Before resorting to mandatory vaccination, you need to look at other tools, for example, at covid passes, which do not limit freedom at all, but, on the contrary, help to preserve it,” he concluded.
On November 19, a study was published in the United States that revealed the earliest case of coronavirus infection. The report names a saleswoman at a fish market in Wuhan, China as the first patient. The head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona, Dr. Michael Warobay, said she contracted the infection on December 11, 2019.
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