The coronavirus epidemic has claimed more than 425,000 lives worldwide since China reported the disease in December, according to an AFP report from official sources at 3:30 a.m. Paris time).
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A total of 425,282 deaths (for 7,632,517 reported cases) have been recorded worldwide. Europe is the region with the most deaths (186,843 for 2,363,538 cases), but it is now in Latin America that the epidemic is progressing most rapidly, with a total of 76,343 deaths for 1,569,938 cases.
