The head of the World Health Organization's Health Emergencies Programme has warned countries about lifting Covid-19 restrictions too quickly.
Dr Mike Ryan said not enough people have been vaccinated for any country to lift restrictions too early. Speaking during a Q&A on Facebook with epidemiologist Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, Dr Ryan said that overall he thinks some countries have made "a very premature rush back to full normality". "I think were are going to pay a price for that, because we are not there at vaccination, the variants are really there and we have not protected enough people," he added.
Dr Ryan said with cases in the European region running at 500,000 a week and one million a week in all the counties of the Americas, the