LONDON – The World Health Organization’s Europe director said Thursday that the 54-country region has again reached a new weekly record for confirmed cases, with more than 1.5 million confirmed last week and more than 10 million since the start of the pandemic. “Europe is at the epicenter of this pandemic once again,” Kluge said. Along with the usual European countries, WHO includes includes Russia and some central Asian countries like Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan in its Europe region. But numerous countries across Europe such as Britain, failed to do so. “We are also confident that children and adolescents are not considered primary drivers of COVID-19 transmission," he said.