Here are the coronavirus headlines for Friday, February 4, as the director of the World Health Organization's Europe office said the continent is now entering a "plausible endgame" to the pandemic and that the number of coronavirus deaths is starting to plateau.
Dr Hans Kluge said that there is a "singular opportunity" for countries across Europe to take control of Covid-19 transmission due to three factors: high levels of immunisation due to vaccination and natural infection, the virus' tendency to spread less in warmer weather and the lower severity of the Omicron variant.
"This period of higher protection should be seen as a cease-fire that could bring us enduring peace," he said.
