Dr. Hans Cluj, Regional Director for Europe of WHO said that vaccines are the best way to recover from this epidemic but to date only 10 percent of Europe’s population has received a single dose of the vaccine.
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A senior official of the World Health Organization said on Thursday that the European countries’ vaccination program against Covid-19 is’ unacceptably slow ‘. In such a situation, there is a danger of epidemic living for a long time. World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Europe Dr Hans Cluj said vaccines are the best way to overcome the epidemic but to date only 10 percent of Europe’s population has received a single dose of vaccines and just four percent have Both doses are taken.
He said that as long as the pace is slow, we will have to adopt public health and social security measures as before so that the damage caused by the delay so far can be compensated. Cluj warned that the governments of European countries should avoid false sense of security about the beginning of their vaccination campaign. He said that Europe remains the second worst affected region in the world in cases of corona virus infection and death.
‘Corona infection is spreading rapidly’
WHO said that COVID-19 infection is spreading rapidly in every age except people above 80 years of age. Its low prevalence in people over 80 years of age indicates that vaccination efforts have helped reduce epidemic outbreaks.
‘The vaccine is effective even after 6 months’
On the other hand, pharma company Pfizer has said that its COVID-19 vaccine is effective even after six months. Pfizer and its German partner BioNotech announced the results of the latest study of more than 44,000 volunteers on Thursday. Companies said that the vaccine is up to 91 percent effective in symptomatic disease. According to the companies, from March 13, there were 927 cases of infection with the corona virus, of which 77 people were vaccinated, while 850 were those who were vaccinated ‘dummy’.
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