WHO Does Not Rule Out the Third Coronavirus Wave in Europe

If the necessary infrastructure to fight the pandemic is not built in the near future, Europe will have to deal with the third wave of coronavirus, the WHO special envoy said. Europe may face the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2021, the World Health Organization’s special COVID-19 envoy David Nabarro warned. In an interview with the Swiss media company CH Media newspapers, published on November 21, Nabarro commented on the Swiss response to the pandemic and said that the country, like the rest of Europe, was in a summer lull. As a result, they have the second wave, and if measures are not taken now, then the third wave of the pandemic will come, a member of the Royal College of Physicians in London added. He explained that the authorities of European countries took control of the first wave of the pandemic, but missed building up the “necessary infrastructure” to prevent the second wave. At the moment, the current pandemic situation is “very serious”, Nabarro warned. Since the start of the pandemic in March, more than 58.6 million people have been infected with the coronavirus in the world, according to the Worldometer portal. Almost 1.39 million have died as a result of the infection. In Switzerland, there are over 290 thousand cases of infection, more than 4 thousand infected have died.