Europe virus spike troubling, but not as bad as first round — WHO

15 October 2020, 2:53 pm

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The soaring number of COVID-19 cases in Europe is of “great concern,” but the situation is still better than the peaks in April, the World Health Organization’s regional office said Thursday.

“Daily numbers of cases are up, hospital admissions are up,” the WHO’s regional director for Europe Hans Kluge tells a press conference.

“COVID is now the fifth leading cause of deaths and the bar of a 1,000 deaths per day has now been reached.”

But he adds that “we are not” in the situation experienced in March and April.

“Although we record two to three times more cases per day compared to the April peak, we still observe five times less deaths, and the doubling time in hospital admissions is still two to three times longer,” Kluge says.

— AFP