This means that around 30 percent of all corona cases reported worldwide so far occur in the European region, as the latest figures from the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed on Monday.
The WHO Regional Office for Europe called for more efforts to make faster and more balanced progress in vaccinating against Covid-19. The vaccination progress varied greatly among the countries, the vaccination rate is still low in priority groups such as the elderly, health care workers, those in long-term care and the pre-ill, said the regional WHO emergency director Dorit Nitzan.
It is important that the countries continue to strive to protect the most vulnerable people and risk groups, said Nitzan. Sadly, there are now more than 1.2 million Covid-19-related deaths in the region. So far there are 4.2 million deaths worldwide.
The WHO counts a total of more than 50 countries in the Europe region, including the European Union as well as countries east of it such as Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and other countries.
The EU health authority ECDC has so far recorded around 34.4 million infections and more than 740,000 deaths for the 27 EU member states and their partner countries Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, which are linked in the European Economic Area.