He noted that there are still people at risk of serious illness who “we need to protect as soon as possible.”
“There is no doubt that the pandemic is not over and there is no time for complacency” emphasized the director of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Andrea Amonspeaking to the European Parliament’s special committee on the coronavirus.
He noted that there are still people at risk of serious illness who “we need to protect as soon as possible.”
“Even the goal of all vaccination efforts is to prevent severe illness and death, and what we’ve seen so far is that current vaccines are still effective against severe illness,” said Ms. Amon.
In addition, it said that the past three weeks have seen an increase in case rates and hospitalizations and reiterated the ECDC and European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) recommendation to second booster dose in those over 60 or more vulnerable.
“We have seen that many countries will prepare for vaccination campaigns a little later, in September or later, so it will take some efforts to get an immediate campaign now because by September we think most countries will be at or above the peak so the impact for the booster dose will be smaller” added the director of ECDC.
“We still don’t know what the epidemiological situation will be in the fall, what the variant will be circulating,” he pointed out, adding that it is important that countries also prepare a systematic and robust surveillance system not only for the coronavirus, but also for other diseases. respiratory, first of all for the flu.
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