Worrying COVID-19 trends in 7 EU countries, including Spain -EU agency

Seven European Union countries -- Spain, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Czech Republic and Malta -- are of "high concern" due to rising Covid-19 death rates, the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention warned Thursday.

The Stockholm-based EU agency's latest assessment report said these countries had "an increased proportion of hospitalized and severe cases", and "increasing or high death notification rates are already observed... or may be observed soon," owing to a spread among older people. -Agence France-Presse