Covid-19 keeps on striking panic in Europe. And contamination waves might resume quicker than expected. Anyway, this is what World Health Organization’s regional director for Europe Hans Kluge thinks this Thursday July 1, 2021. As the latest data were rather positive (declining) for ten weeks, the risk of a new coronavirus wave has never been this close. And for good reason, the increase in new cases in Europe letting fear "there will be a new wave in the WHO European region unless we remain disciplined", Kluge insists on.
Why does the Covid-19 epidemic worry WHO so much? Mostly because of the Delta variant - the most virulent of them. In Russia, an epidemic surge happened over the past days with a new daily death record (672 deaths in 24 hours). This is the third time in three days this gruesome record is broken. And in one day only, the Delta variant has mostly infected 21,042 people in Russia.
Therefore, WHO also calls EU countries to improve supporters' health safety over the EUFA EURO 2021 - still going on. "We need to look much beyond just the stadiums themselves" WHO's senior emergency officer, Catherine Smallwood, told. Anyway, the threat of the Delta variant casts a shadow of a new epidemic surge in Europe all summer long.
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