Coronavirus: Kyriakides, very worrying situation – Europe

BRUSSELS – “The Covid-19 situation in some EU states is even worse than the peak in March, this is very worrying. And it means that the control measures adopted have not been effective enough or have not been applied, or have not been complied with as they should have been. This is clearly underlined in the risk assessment presented today by the ECDC. ” Thus, the European Commissioner for Health, Stella Kyriakides, at a press conference on risk assessment.

Italy is in the group of countries that the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) identifies as “low overall risk of Covid-19 for the general population and the health system.” As for vulnerable people (people with risk factors for severe Covid-19 disease, such as the elderly), “since the impact of the disease in these groups is very high, the overall risk is moderate.”