FILE PHOTO: Executive Director of the World Health Organization's (WHO) emergencies program Mike Ryan speaks at a news conference on the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Geneva, Switzerland February 6, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
GENEVA (Reuters) - Rates of COVID-19 infections and hospital bed occupancy are rising in Europe, where authorities need to work to halt spread ahead of the influenza season, a top World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Friday.
"Europe has a lot of work to do to stabilise the situation and bring transmission under control," Mike Ryan, WHO's emergency expert told a press conference. "Overall within that very large region we are seeing a worrying increase in disease."
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