PARIS: The novel
coronavirus has killed more than 120,000 people worldwide, nearly 70
percent of them in Europe, according to a tally compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT Tuesday from official sources.
A total of 120,013 deaths have now been recorded since the
epidemic first emerged in China in December, 81,474 of them in Europe.
The figures were collated using data collected by AFP from national
authorities and information from the
World Health Organisation (WHO).