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The World Health Organization (WHO) Office for Europe has called for increased coronavirus vaccination efforts in Eastern Europe, warning that the “wave” of the Omicron variant is heading in the right direction.
WHO Europe Director Hans Kluge has said that in the last two weeks, coronavirus cases have more than doubled in six countries – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine.
“As expected, Omicron’s wave is moving east,” Kluge said.
The WHO Europe Branch compares 52 countries, including some in Central Asia.
Kluge said the vaccination rate is relatively low in some parts of the region.
Less than 40 percent of people over the age of 60 have been fully vaccinated in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
He added that in Bulgaria, Georgia and northern Macedonia less than 40 per cent of health workers have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
He has said that given the extent of the Omicron variant and the circulation of the Delta variant in the east, now is not the time to ease the measures that are known to work in fighting the pandemic.
According to him, these measures include avoiding events with many people, putting the mask indoors and conducting rapid tests to identify cases of infection as soon as possible.
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