WHO representatives say there is an underreporting of total cases
Covid-19 is still responsible for 1,000 deaths every week in Europe, as the European headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday (27). This number, however, isunderestimated due to the low number of countries regularly reporting Covid deaths to WHO”, says the regional director of the headquarters, Hans Kluge.
According to the newspaper Le Monde, the director’s speech puts pressure on the authorities to guarantee vaccination coverage for at least 70% of the vulnerable population. “While no longer a global public health emergency, Covid-19 has not gone awayOn 5 May, WHO declared the end of the Public Health Emergency of International Concern regarding the disease caused by the coronavirus.
The representative of the Organization further states that it is “a complex infection that we still don’t know well enough aboutIn Europe, one in 30 people has suffered the effects of Covid for a long time in the last three years. This means that around 36 million inhabitants of the region, which brings together 53 countries and extends to Central Asia, have been affected by the long form of the disease.
“We have to keep looking at the long-term aftermath of Covid, like long-term Covid. These cases continue to have a profound impact on health worldwide and cannot be ignored.“, strengthened the WHO emergency manager in Europe, Catherine Smallwood.
On the continent, the headquarters of the Organization reminds that attention must also be paid to the monkeypox epidemic – which had 22 cases recorded in Europe in May – and to the consequences of heat waves.
Source: Terra
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