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European Countries Consider Living with COVID-19 - VOA Learning English
Jan 22, 2022 1 min, 7 secs
Some European countries are making new policies to deal with COVID-19 as a usual, infectious disease, similar to the flu, and not as a public health crisis.

People including children were not permitted to go outside, even for exercise.

Officials said the measures prevented a collapse of the health care system.

The country has one of Europe’s highest vaccination rates, but also is suffering economic weakness.

The goal is to move away from using crisis measures and toward treating the new coronavirus in the way that many countries deal with the flu and measles.

Other European countries including Britain and Portugal are planning similar action.

Johnson said beginning on January 27, many COVID-19 measures would end.

These include required vaccination proof to attend public events.

Portugal has one of the world’s highest vaccination rates.

On New Year’s Day, President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said the country had “moved into the endemic phase” of the pandemic.

In Germany, for example, 73 percent of people have been fully vaccinated.

He said widespread vaccination and infection mean efforts can be placed on prevention, testing and watching moderate- to high-risk groups.

For now, some observers say the discussion about how to deal with endemic COVID-19 is limited to rich countries.

They have used vaccines and public health systems to deal with the severest effects of the pandemic.

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