"Without increased control to slow its spread, there will be an increased impact on already stressed and pressurized health facilities”, @hans_kluge said at @WHO_Europe press conference this morning, talking about #B117.
@hans_kluge @WHO_Europe "It is our assessment that this variant of concern may over time, replace other circulating lineages, as seen in the United Kingdom, and increasingly in Denmark”, @hans_kluge said. “With increased transmissibility, and similar disease severity, the variant does ... raise alarm."
@hans_kluge @WHO_Europe He urged countries to act by:
1. "investigating unusually rapid transmission and unexpected disease presentation or severity”
2. “increasing the sequencing of systematically selected subsets of #SARSCoV2 infections”
3. sharing this data
1. "investigating unusually rapid transmission and unexpected disease presentation or severity”
2. “increasing the sequencing of systematically selected subsets of #SARSCoV2 infections”
3. sharing this data
@hans_kluge @WHO_Europe “This is an alarming situation, which means that for a short period of time, we need to do more than we have done, and to intensify the public health and social measures to be certain we can flatten the steep vertical line in some countries”, @hans_kluge said.
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