WHO Europe chief urges nations to keep up virus quarantines

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization’s European director has warned countries against reducing the quarantine period for people potentially exposed to the coronavirus. Dr. Hans Kluge also acknowledged on Thursday that COVID-19 “fatigue” is setting in along with growing public resistance to the measures needed to control the pandemic. Kluge insisted that countries should only reduce the standard two-week quarantine period if it was scientifically justified. Kluge sa