{"id":116825,"date":"2021-04-02T09:38:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T01:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116825"},"modified":"2021-04-02T09:38:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T01:38:57","slug":"covid-19-europe-vaccine-rollout-unacceptably-slow-case-surge-worrying-says-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116825","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Europe vaccine rollout \u2018unacceptably slow\u2019, case surge \u2018worrying\u2019, says WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/US-leads-concern-over-WHO-backed-Covid-origins-report.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/US-leads-concern-over-WHO-backed-Covid-origins-report.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>COPENHAGEN, April 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The World Health Organization  slammed Europe\u2019s \u201cunacceptably slow\u201d vaccine rollout and said the<br>region\u2019s surge in coronavirus infections was \u201cworrying\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cVaccines present our best way out of this pandemic\u2026 However, the rollout<br>of these vaccines is unacceptably slow\u201d and is \u201cprolonging the pandemic\u201d, WHO director for Europe Hans Kluge said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe must speed up the process by ramping up manufacturing, reducing<br>barriers to administering vaccines, and using every single vial we have in<br>stock, now,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The organisation said that Europe\u2019s virus situation was \u201cmore worrying than we have seen in several months.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five weeks ago, the weekly number of new cases in Europe had dipped to<br>under one million, but \u201clast week saw increasing transmission of Covid-19 in the majority of countries in the WHO European region, with 1.6 million new cases,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total number of deaths in Europe \u201cis fast approaching one million and<br>the total number of cases about to surpass 45 million,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The WHO\u2019s European region comprises 53 countries and territories and<br>includes Russia and several Central Asian nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The organisation warned that the rapid spread of the virus could increase<br>the risk of new variants of concern developing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe likelihood of new variants of concern occurring increases with the<br>rate at which the virus is replicating and spreading, so curbing transmission through basic disease control actions is crucial,\u201d Dorit Nitzan, WHO Europe\u2019s regional emergency director, said in the statement. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COPENHAGEN, April 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The World Health Organization slammed Europe\u2019s \u201cunacceptably slow\u201d vaccine rollout and said theregion\u2019s surge in coronavirus infections was \u201cworrying\u201d. \u201cVaccines present our best way out of this pandemic\u2026 However, the rolloutof these vaccines is unacceptably slow\u201d and is \u201cprolonging the pandemic\u201d, WHO director for Europe Hans Kluge said in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":116826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116825"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}