Covid: Record German cases as WHO warns of Europe deaths - BBC News

Germany has recorded almost 34,000 daily Covid cases in the past 24 hours, its highest number so far, in what the health minister is calling a "massive pandemic of the unvaccinated".

Sixteen million Germans have not had a jab. However hospital intensive care cases are still lower than in spring.

The World Health Organization has warned of a possible half a million more deaths in Europe by February.

Europe head Hans Kluge blamed insufficient vaccine take-up.

He said a relaxation of public health measures was also behind the rise in Covid cases in the WHO's European region, which covers 53 countries including parts of Central Asia. So far the WHO has recorded 1.4m deaths across the region.