Europe and pharmaceutical groups must work together to speed up Covid-19 vaccinations, the head of the European branch of the World Health Organization has said, expressing concern about the effectiveness of vaccines on virus variants. "We need to join up to speed up vaccinations," WHO Europe director Hans Kluge told AFP in an interview, as Europe bids to overcome a slow start to its vaccination campaign amid tensions between the European Union and vaccine manufacturers. "Otherwise competing pharmaceutical companies (must) join efforts to drastically increase production capacity ...
that's what we need," Mr Kluge said. Just 2.5% of the population in the EU has received a first vaccine dose, though announcements by several laboratories of