At least 1.4 million lives were saved in Europe due to safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines, the World Health Organization (WHO)’s European regional office said on Tuesday. This was according to a new WHO study released on a preprint server analysing the influence of COVID-19 vaccines in 34 countries – all but one – in Europe. COVID-19 vaccines reduced deaths by 57 per cent between December 2020 when the vaccine rollouts began and March 2023, the study found. The cumulative death toll in the European region, which currently sits at 2.5 million lives, could have reached nearly 4 million people …