Afp, Europe exceeds 100 million cases of virus discovery

(ANSA) - ROME, 01 JAN - The current outbreak of infections pushed by the Omicron variant of Covid has led Europe to exceed one hundred million cases since the discovery of the coronavirus in December 2019, according to a count by the AFP.

    At 18.45 GMT today, Europe - considering 52 countries and territories from the Atlantic to Russia and Azerbaijan - had officially registered 100,074,753 infections, or more than a third of cases worldwide (288,279,803, always according to Afp).

In the last 7 days, Europe has counted over 4.9 million infections, with an increase of 59% compared to the previous week.

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