The recommendation also applies to all vulnerable people, specify the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
Le Monde with AFP
Faced with the seventh wave of the COVVI-19 epidemic, the European Union’s commission and health agencies recommended a second dose of vaccine recall on Monday 11 on all over 60s on Monday 11, instead 80 years until now. “I call on member states to immediately offer second reminders to every 60th as to vulnerable people, and I call on all eligible people to present themselves for vaccination,” said European Commissioner for the Health Stella Kyriakides.
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The recommendation also applies to all vulnerable people, specify the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in a Communiqué common.
Increase in cases and hospitalizations
In April, the two EU health agencies had already recommended this second dose of recall – in most cases the fourth dose – for those over 80, but reported that an extension to over 60s could follow. Europe is confronted with “the increase in Covid cases but also with an upward trend in the number of emergency hospitalizations or admissions in several countries, mainly due to the BA.5 subvariant” , underlined the director of the ECDC, Andrea Ammon, cited in the press release.
“This signals the beginning of a new extended wave of COVID-19 across the European Union. There are still too many people at risk of a serious infection at the COVVID that we must protect as soon as possible”, insists the European manager.
According to the latest data from the World Health Organization for its Europe area, covering around fifty countries, the number of COVID cases has increased sharply since the end of May.
The number of new daily cases exceeded 675,000 on Friday, regaining its level in early April after the strong winter wave. According to the ECDC and the EMA, there is, on the other hand, “at this stage no clear evidence justifying a second dose of recall to the under 60s having no higher risk of developing a serious form “of COVID-19.