The World Health Organization's special envoy for COIVD-19 has criticized Europe's response to the novel virus warning it could trigger the third wave next year.

Axar.az reports that this was reported by foreign media.

"The reaction in Europe was insufficient," David Nabarro said in an interview carried on Sunday by newspapers in the CH Media Group and by the Swiss news agency Keystone-SDA.

"There was a failure to build the necessary infrastructure in the summer months after getting the first wave under control. And now there is a second wave. If the necessary infrastructure is not built now, there will be the third wave, early next year," Nabarro warned.