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WHO Europe calls for intensified measures over ‘alarming’ virus variant
COPENHAGEN, Jan 7, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – The World Health Organization’s
European branch on Thursday said more needed to be done to deal with the
alarming situation brought on by a recently discovered variant of the novel
coronavirus.
“This is an alarming situation, which means that for a short period of time
we need to do more than we have done and to intensify the public health and
social measures to be certain we can flatten the steep vertical line in some
countries,” the WHO’s regional director for Europe Hans Kluge told a press
conference, referring to the new variant first discovered in the UK.
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