00:00The current pace of transmission across the 53 countries of the European region is of grave concern.
00:09Covid-19 cases are once again approaching record levels,
00:13with the more transmissible Delta variant continuing to dominate transmission across Europe and Central Asia.
00:22According to one reliable projection, if we stay on this trajectory,
00:27we could see another half a million Covid-19 deaths in Europe and Central Asia by the 1st of February
00:35next year.
00:36Cumulatively, there are now more reported cases, 78 million, in the European region,
00:43than in Southeast Asia, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Western Pacific and Africa combined.
00:51We are once again at the epicenter.
00:54We see increasing trends across all age groups.
00:59Of most concern is the rapid increase in the older population groups since week 38,
01:06and this is translating into more people with severe disease and dying.
01:12Vaccines are our most powerful asset, if used alongside other tools.
01:20Reliable projections show that if we achieved 95% universal mask use in Europe and Central Asia,
01:29we could save up to 188,000 lives of the half a million lives we may lose before February 2022.
01:40Last bit, but we don't have the same
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