Paris:
More than 50 million people today have been infected in Europe by the coronavirus considering that it emerged in China in December 2019, according to an AFP tally of official information Wednesday.
A total of 50,021,615 situations have been recorded in 52 nations and territories that extend as far as Azerbaijan and Russia, of which 1,382,000 situations had been recorded in the previous seven days.
That represents an typical of 197,400 situations per day.
Many European nations have reported a reduce quantity of everyday situations in the previous two weeks nonetheless, and governments are progressively lifting measures taken to stem the spread of Covid-19.
Britain permitted non-vital companies and outside cafes to reopen on April 12, for instance, and now reports an typical of 2,300 new situations per day.
That follows a nationwide lockdown and a huge-scale vaccination programme that started in early December and has permitted 64 % of the adult population to acquire at lease one dose.
Italy has also authorized a partial reopening of bars, restaurants, cinemas and theatres, even though France, which has Europe’s highest quantity of declared situations in Europe with more than 5.5 million, reports a slight decline in the quantity of new infections.
On the other hand, Cyprus has recorded 651 new situations per one hundred,000 inhabitants in the previous week, the highest price worldwide according to the information compiled by AFP.
On Friday, the Mediterranean island declared a new two-week lockdown.
Europe accounts for roughly one-third of all Covid-19 situations, but it reported just 24 % of all new situations in the previous week.
More than 1,060,900 people today have died in Europe considering that the epidemic started, but the existing figure of about 3,600 per day represents a slight decline from the level in mid-April.
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