Covid-19: Europe’s death toll tops 25,000

A paramedic carries out a patient on a stretcher from an ambulance at the Henri Mondor Hospital in Creteil, near Paris, as France faces an aggressive progression of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), March 28, 2020. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

Paramedic carries out a patient on a stretcher from an ambulance at the Henri Mondor Hospital in Creteil, near Paris

PARIS, March 31 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 25,000 people in Europe, according to official sources.

With a total of 25,037 deaths out of 399,381 officially declared cases,
Europe is now the continent with the highest toll from COVID-19.

Italy has 10,779 deaths and Spain 7,340, making them the two most affected countries globally with more than three quarters of the deaths in Europe.

A Greek woman aged in her 70s became the first person to die of COVID-19 on the Greek Aegean island of Lesbos, where the overcrowded Moria migrant camp is based.

More than 727,080 cases of infection and 34,610 deaths have been recorded in 183 countries and territories since the coronavirus epidemic started in China in December. — NNN-AGENCIES

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