The WHO believes that Europe is approaching a phase of control of the pandemic

The Director of Public Health and the Environment of the World Health Organization (WHO), María Neira, explained that Europe is approaching a control phase of the coronavirus pandemic and will emerge from the current emergency phase.

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He has said it in an interview with Rac1 collected by Europa Press, in which he has specified that he knows the volume of people who have had the disease, the health systems and the measures that exist in Europe.

However, he stressed that European countries are not isolated and insisted on the importance of reaching 70% of the world population vaccinated against COVID-19 in the coming months.

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The WHO’s goal is to achieve this figure in June 2022, when currently the percentage of vaccinated in the world is 50% but with “very important differences” depending on each country.

In fact, he regretted that there are countries that do not even reach 10% of the population vaccinated against the virus and even

Regarding the new subvariant of omicron BA.2., of which Catalonia has already identified two cases, Neira has maintained that it is not a variant of concern and at the moment there is “nothing” that makes them think that it can change the evolution of the pandemic.

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