Brussels/Rome/London| Coronavirus infections in Europe set records this week and a World Health Organisation official warned that winter death rates could be five times worse than the April peak if people were not strict about masks and social distancing.
The WHO was seeing "exponential increases" in daily cases in Europe, said Hans Kluge, the agency's director for the continent, noting that at 8000 deaths a day, COVID-19 was now Europe's fifth-leading cause of death.
