Europe now has 25 million coronavirus cases – AFP tally

 

25 Dec, 2020 12:50

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A medical worker takes a swab sample at a Covid-19 testing centre in Berlin, Germany. © Reuters / Hannibal Hanschke 

The number of coronavirus cases in Europe surpassed 25 million on Friday, according to a tally by news agency AFP based on official health statistics from different nations.

This makes the continent, representing over 50 countries, the world's worst-affected region in terms of the quantity of registered infections.

The US and Canada rank behind Europe in this measure, with 19,188,172 confirmed cases, followed by Latin America and the Caribbean (15,024,469) and Asia (13,617,004).

It’s not the first anti-record set by Europe this month as, according to AFP data, it also became the first global region to have reached (on December 17) a total of 500,000 virus-linked deaths.

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