Call to speed up Covid jabs as Delta variant spreads across Europe
by Daniel Boffey in Brussels from World news | The Guardian on (#5KE1P)
ECDC says too many vulnerable people not yet fully vaccinated, with Delta on course to make up 90% of cases
The EU's disease control agency has called for swifter vaccination in Europe as the highly transmissible Delta variant of Covid is forecast to account for 90% of all cases in member states by the end of August.
Dr Andrea Ammon, the director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), said people who have had a single jab were still at risk of infection and hospitalisation, with the variant likely to spread widely among young people this summer.
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