Between 60% and 80% of the European population has been infected with Covid-19. The finding comes from the European Commission itself, which showed in a document released this Wednesday that the health crisis will enter its post-emergence stage.
“It is estimated that between 60% and 80% of the EU population has COVID,” EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said at a press conference.
WHO estimates that the number of officially recorded cases does not reveal the true scale of the pandemic, but insists that testing must continue before the trajectory of the virus is known.
The bloc’s executive branch has signaled that it is considering plans to develop antivirals, saying European Union governments should increase children’s vaccinations against COVID-19 as they prepare for this less acute phase.
According to current calculations, the virus has reached about 30% of the European population. But when millions of people are symptom-free, the real rate may be 350 million Europeans, about 77% of the bloc’s population.
What worries health officials, governments and WHO is that a new variant could emerge. According to the UN agency, mutations are recorded every five months. That’s why the business insists that governments should plan to re-implement emergency measures, intensify vaccines or, if necessary, identify controls.
One of its focuses, according to WHO, is to pressure the unvaccinated population to choose to get vaccinated. “People living with Covid-19 today are people who choose not to be vaccinated,” said Maria van Kerkhove, WHO’s technical director.
Another focus is on the vaccination guarantee for children. Immunization rates in this group in Europe are below 15%.
source: Noticias
