Europe's COVID-19 cases have dropped 60% over the past month, but progress is fragile, as the region once again is on guard against a more transmissible SARS-CoV-2 variant, B1617, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) European regional office said today.Hans Henri Kluge, MD, MPH, the group's director, said, "We have been here before.
Let us not make the same mistakes that were made this time last year."Much of Europe still vulnerableSome European countries took reopening steps this week, with, for example, United Kingdom residents returning to pubs and Parisians dining in outdoor cafes again.Kluge warned that several countries have pockets of transmission that could fuel dangerous resurgences, and he noted that case incidence is