More than two million people have died of Covid-19 in Europe, the long epicenter of the pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Thursday.
“A devastating milestone has been reached as the number of deaths from Covid-19 reported by countries in the WHO Europe region has exceeded two million people,” said a spokesperson for the health organization. the UN.
In total, 218,225,294 cases have been identified by the organization in the WHO Europe area, which extends to Central Asia, for nearly 2,002,058 deaths.
After a rebound in the first half of March, the coronavirus pandemic has since declined in Europe.
The number of cases and deaths has fallen by 26% and 24% respectively in the past seven days.
One million deaths in the United States
More than two years after the first restrictions, including strict confinement in March 2020, most European countries want to turn the page on Covid-19 and few limitations remain.
In France, for example, wearing a mask will no longer be compulsory in transport from Monday, just like in planes and airports in the European Union.
On this subject, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran was confident about the evolution of the pandemic, not however excluding the return of the compulsory mask in the event of a rebound in the epidemic.
For their part, the United States has crossed the million dead mark, the White House announced on Thursday, and remains the most bereaved in the world.
