WHO sounds alarm over rising Covid deaths in EuropeA health worker collects a sample to test for the Covid-19 coronavirus in Colombo, Sri LankaCOPENHAGEN - The World Health warned Monday that 236,000 more people could die from Covid in Europe by December, sounding the alarm over rising infections and stagnating vaccine rates across the continent. In South Africa, scientists are monitoring a new coronavirus variant with an unusually high mutation rate. Europe has already registered around 1.3 million Covid deaths to date. "My daughter has not been vaccinated and the Delta variant is spreading like crazy," Asmara Wreksono, mother of a third-grader, told AFP. Some 10,000 Covid deaths are now reported every day around the world, still a lower figure than the highs of January when an average of 14,800 people were dying daily.

Source: Bangkok Post August 30, 2021 19:18 UTC