GENEVA (AN) — Europe is again at the center of the pandemic with COVID-19 now the leading cause of death on the continent, the U.N. health agency said on Tuesday, as nations scrambled to impose new rules and pressure for more people to get vaccinated.
The 53-nation region covered by the World Health Organization’s Europe office, which includes Russia and the United Kingdom, could hit 2.2 million coronavirus deaths next spring when the pandemic is two years old, according to computer modeling for WHO that is carried out by the U.S.-based Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.
