Afp. Europe exceeds half a million deaths: it is the first region in the world

• Coronavirus: in Italy 18,236 new cases, 683 deaths with 185,320 swabs

• Coronavirus.

  Over 74 million infections in the world.

  New records in the US and Germany

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December 17, 2020

today has become the first region in the world to record more than half a million deaths from Covid-19, according to a tally by AFP based on reports provided by health authorities.

In the

European

there are at least 500,069 deaths (with over 23 million infections). 

There

are 477,404

victims in

, 321,287 in the

and

,

208,149

in

,

85,895

in the

and 57,423 in

.

According to the Johns Hopkins University tally, the US has exceeded 307 thousand victims and 17 million cases of Covid-19.

Six out of ten deaths in the European region affect five countries: Italy, the United Kingdom, France, Russia and Spain;

among the countries most affected, however, the worst ratio between victims and population belongs to Belgium (158 per hundred thousand inhabitants). 

Only yesterday the World Health Organization had warned of a "high risk" of the resumption of the epidemic in Europe at the beginning of 2021, asking to wear a mask and keep the social distance even during the Christmas holidays.