GENEVA – A WHO epidemiologist said she had been devastated to watch unmasked crowds singing and shouting at the Euro 2020 football final in London on Sunday, expressing concerns that it would spur COVID-19 transmission, including the Delta variant.
Britain is facing a new wave of COVID-19 driven by the more transmissible variant despite having one of the world’s highest vaccination rates. It plans to scrap most remaining anti-coronavirus restrictions on July 19, in a move that worries some scientists.
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— UEFA EURO 2020 (@EURO2020) July 12, 2021
In unusually forthright comments from the U.N. health agency, which usually refrains from remarking on the policies…
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