Europe must go beyond science to survive Covid crisis, says WHO

Authorities urged to develop policies to tackle virus fatigue' as Finland, Poland and Russia join nations with rapidly rising cases

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The World Health Organization has said European countries will need to move beyond biomedical science" to overcome Covid-19 as pandemic fatigue" and new infections rapidly rise across the continent.

Hans Kluge, the WHO's Europe director, said that while fatigue from months of uncertainty and disruption was measured differently in different countries, aggregated survey data from across the region suggested that in some cases it it had reached levels of over 60%.