Vice-President of the European Commission on Monday warned of complacency regarding the COVID-19 pandemic as India’s first highly infectious delta variant continues to spread across the continent.

At a meeting of the European Union Parliamentary Commission, Vice-President of the European Commission Margaritis Schinas said, according to a recent recommendation from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), delta variants will be in all new cases in Europe by August. Is expected to account for 70% of the total. And 90% by the end of the month.

He suggests that the ECDC modeling scenario further relaxes the safety limits of coronaviruses, “significantly increasing daily cases in all age groups, with concomitant hospitalization and possibly death.” Said.

Shinas added that he was skeptical that London’s Wembley Stadium would host the semi-finals or finals of the European Football Championship in large volumes. “These decisions require some symmetry,” he said, given the UK’s travel restrictions on travel to Europe.

“I think the UEFA (European Football Association) is a good place to carefully analyze that decision here,” he added.

The British government has said Wembley will be allowed to host the Euro 2020 semi-finals and finals with at least 60,000 fans. Britain’s new Minister of Health, Sajid David, told Parliament Monday that there was no reason why the government could not proceed with plans to lift all restrictions on the country by July 19.

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