EU Advises Tighter Covid Surveillance Amid Concern Over China
- Bloc closely watching ‘alarming’ surge in Chinese infections
- Health commissioner says new variants must be detected early
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The European Commission has asked EU member states to review Covid testing and sequencing procedures and to consider scaling them back up amid increased concern about the virus spreading from China.
“If a new variant of the SARS-CoV2 virus appears – be it in China or in the EU – we must detect it early in order to be prepared to react fast,” Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides wrote in a letter sent Thursday to health ministers and seen by Bloomberg.