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The Director of the World Health Organisation's Europe Region Hans Kluge warns of "alarming" rates of Covid-19 transmission across Europe from the case numbers for September. SOUNDBITE
Copenhagen, Aug 30 (EFE).- (Camera: EFE/EPA Archive).The World Health Organization expressed Monday its serious concern over the rise of Covid-19 infections and stagnant vaccination rates across Europe. ARCHIVE FOOTAGE OF VACCINATION CAMPAIGN IN EUROPE.
The World Health Organization knows what the single most effective method of controlling an epidemic is: quarantining. It's complete isolation from other people, including those you'd normally live with and breathe around, to the fullest extent possible. In other words, keeping sick people away from every other person until they're not sick anymore and the chain of transmission has been broken. That means not going to work. It means not going to the grocery store. It means not socializing with friends. It means not having people over at your home. Maria Van Kerkhove Technical Lead for COVID-19, WHO But WHO officials say there's not a country in the world facing rising coronavirus cases that is actually practicing effective, systematic quarantining. New confirmed cases are rising particularly quickly in the US, UK, Italy, and Belgium. However, the increase is not limited to those spots.
Michael Osterholm is the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. And according to HuffPost, he has a grim prognostication for the next six to 12 weeks, saying they're going to be 'the darkest of the entire pandemic.' HuffPost says Osterholm points to the daily tally of 70,000 new COVID-19 cases in the US on Friday, which is the highest level since July. He said that between now and the holidays, the number of COVID-19 cases in the US will likely 'blow right through that.' Speaking on NBC's 'Meet the Press' on Sunday, Osterholm said he was troubled by the US's lack of a leading voice to guide the public. Vaccines will not become available in any meaningful way until early to the third quarter of next year. And even then, about half of the U.S. population at this point is skeptical of even taking the vaccine. Michel Osterholm Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, University of Minnesota
Washington, Apr 13 (EFE).- Working from the confinement of his home in the San Francisco Bay Area, a Spanish engineer has written a series of articles in recent weeks on the spread of Covid-19 that have garnered tens of millions of views and instantly made him an in-demand consultant on the pandemic fight.STATEMENTS BY SPANISH ENGINEER TOMÁS PUEYO IN A VIDEO CONFERENCE BY ZOOM
Images show the Ramada Hotel in Schiphol, Netherlands where Europe's highest number of people so far with the Omicron strain of Covid-19 are being kept in isolation. IMAGES
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