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A new wave of infections of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus is heading towards eastern Europe, the World Health Organization warned on Tuesday, urging authorities to step up vaccination campaigns and other measures.
In the past two weeks, the number of cases has more than doubled in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belarus, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine, Hans Kluge, WHO's regional director for Europe, said in a statement.
His statements come at a time when many European countries, including the Czech Republic and Poland, are hinting that they will relax pandemic restrictions next month if the daily number of cases continues to fall.
However, the WHO stressed that the need for measures such as rapid tests and mask use remains, given that more than 165 million cases of coronavirus have been recorded in the WHO-covered region of Europe, with 25,000 deaths last week alone.
"Faced with the Omicron wave and with Delta still circulating widely in the east, the worrying situation is not an appropriate time to remove measures we know are working to reduce the spread of Covid," Kluge noted.
He also called on governments to investigate the reasons for low vaccination rates in the countries.
Less than 40 percent of citizens over 60 years of age in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan have completed their vaccination against, Kluge noted.
Source: RES / Reuters
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