WHO Europe chief voices ‘grave concern’ about Covid rebound

A woman walks past an abandoned coronavirus test centre in Frankfurt, Germany (Michael Probst/AP)

A 53-country region in Europe and Central Asia faces the “real threat” of a resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic in the coming weeks or is already experiencing it, the head of a World Health Organisation regional office said.

Dr Hans Kluge, WHO regional director for Europe, said case counts are beginning to near record levels again and the pace of transmission in the region, which stretches as far east as the former Soviet republics in Central Asia, is of “grave concern”.