Earlier, Turkey had said it had reached an agreement for the purchase of some 30 million doses of that vaccine. ———GENEVA — The World Health Organization said the recent surge in global coronavirus cases is largely due to “the increased mixing of people,” not the newly identified virus variants. Van Kerkhove noted that during the summer, COVID-19 cases were down to single digits in most countries across Europe. “We lost the battle because we changed our mixing patterns over the summer, into the fall and especially around Christmas and the New Year,” she said. “That has had a direct impact on the exponential growth that you have seen in many countries,” she said.

Source: Daily Sun January 11, 2021 20:15 UTC