Kluge, director of the World Health Organization's European Regional Office, said at an online press conference in Copenhagen on the 7th that the world will have new tools such as vaccines to deal with the new crown epidemic in 2021, but it is also facing new challenges such as virus mutation.
Klug said that of the 53 countries under the responsibility of the WHO Regional Office for Europe, 22 countries have found mutated strains of the new coronavirus. The mutated virus is more contagious, and the severity of the disease has not changed. If control is not strengthened to slow its spread, it will have a greater impact on the currently stressed medical system.
He called on all countries to be vigilant, investigate and track abnormal fast-spreading events, unexpected disease manifestations or severe illnesses, increase systematic sequencing of mutant viruses, use sequencing data to promote early prevention, and share more data.
According to data from the WHO Regional Office for Europe, more than 230 million people in Europe are currently living in the national lockdown, and some countries will announce lockdown measures in the next few weeks. More than a quarter of European countries have a very high rate of new crown infections, and the health care system is under tremendous pressure.
Klug called on all countries to continue to wear masks, limit the number of social gatherings, maintain social distance and wash hands, supplemented by appropriate virus detection and tracking and other epidemic prevention measures.
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