"I think we are in a very dangerous phase, we are seing infection rates rise very, very significantly in Western Europe and the full impact is not yet clear", explains WHO representative Catherine Smallwood in a videocall interview. "We are still at a phase where the virus is evolving quickly, the more it spreads, the more it transmits and replicates and the more likely there is to be a new variant" she adds. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES