Worldwide coronavirus death toll passes 120,000

PARIS — The novel coronavirus has killed more than 120,000 people worldwide, nearly 70 percent of them in Europe, according to a tally compiled today by AFP 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 are collated using data collected by AFP from national authorities and information from the World Health Organization (WHO).

— AFP

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