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The World Health Organization (WHO) expects an increase in the number of deaths from covid-19 in Europe during the months of October and November, which will be “harsher” due to the pandemic, revealed the regional director of the organization for Europe .
“It will get more difficult. In October and November we will see a higher mortality ”, said Hans Kluge in an interview with France Precept (AFP), when the number of registered cases skyrocketed in the old continent, but with an almost stable daily death toll.
According to the WHO, the increase in the number of daily deaths is due to the increase in cases due to the resumption of the epidemic in Europe.
“We are at a time when countries do not want to hear this kind of bad news, and I understand it,” said the WHO regional director for Europe, who, however, wanted to send “the positive message” that the pandemic ” it’s going to stop, at one point or another ”.
WHO Europe brings together its 50 member states today and Tuesday to discuss the response to the pandemic and agree on a five-year strategy.
The senior UN official also warned those who believe that the end of the epidemic will coincide with the development of a vaccine, still in process: “I hear all the time: ‘the vaccine will end the epidemic.” Of course not! Hans Kluge said.
“We don’t even know if the vaccine will be effective for all sectors of the population. Some signals we are receiving is that it will be effective for some, but not for others “, stressed the Belgian doctor, adding:” And if we suddenly have to develop different vaccines, what a logistical nightmare. “
“The end of this pandemic will be when, as a community, we learn to live with it. And it depends on us. It’s a very positive message, ”she said.
The number of cases in Europe has been increasing notably for several weeks, especially in Spain and France. As of Friday, more than 51,000 new cases were reported in the 55 countries of the WHO in Europe, more than the peaks recorded in April, according to data from the organization.
At the same time, the number of daily deaths remains, for the moment, at the level observed since the beginning of June, around 400 to 500 deaths related to covid-19, according to the same source.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed at least 921,097 deaths and more than 28.8 million cases of infection in 196 countries and territories.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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