European Union warns Covid-19 health crisis not over yet, urges vigilance

The European Union’s top health official warned on Friday that public health crisis caused by the Covid-19 epidemic in Europe is not over yet.

The public health crisis caused by the Covid-19 epidemic in Europe is not over yet, the European Union’s top health official warned on Friday, urging governments to remain vigilant and plough ahead with testing and tracing the population.

A health worker preserves a blood sample of a boy during door-to-door testing and screening facility for the coronavirus (AP)

“This is not behind us yet. We need to be vigilant,” EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides told EU health ministers in a videoconference, amid fears of a new surge in infections as EU states gradually reopen business and borders and after mass protests in recent days across the continent.