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GENEVA, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization's
European director Hans Kluge said on Thursday COVID-19
transmission rates in Europe remained too high, putting health
services under severe strain, and therefore it was "too early to
ease up".
"We need to be patient, it will take time to vaccinate," he
told an online briefing. "We have learned harsh lessons -
opening and closing, and reopening (societies) rapidly is a poor
strategy" in seeking to curb coronavirus contagion, he said.
(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay and John Miller
Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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