UN Says 95 Percent of COVID-19 Deaths Are Over 60 But Young Still At Risk

Medics evacuate a COVID-19 patient at an airport near Paris, France, on April 1, 2020. Julien Fechter/DICOD via AP

A senior official at the World Health Organization (WHO), which is part of the United Nations group, said that while over 95 percent of those who have died of COVID-19 in Europe were over 60, young people are still at risk.

“The very notion that COVID-19 only affects older people is factually wrong,” said Dr. Hans Kluge, at an online news conference in Copenhagen Thursday. “Young people are not invincible.”