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CNN: WHO warns Europe facing 500,000 more COVID-19 deaths by February

By CNN.

Published Nov. 4, 2021 at 8:17 pm

In this file photo taken on Nov. 2, 2020 a man, wearing a protective mask, walks past the closed terrace of the Fouquet's restaurant on the Champs-Elysee avenue on the fourth day of a lockdown aimed at containing the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Paris.

Photo by AFP

Europe is facing a potentially devastating winter that could see half a million people die with COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Nov. 4, as it sounded the alarm over a surge in cases and bemoaned stuttering vaccination rollouts on parts of the continent.