Official statistics compiled by AFP show today that since the outbreak of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Epidemic in December 2019, the number of infected cases in Europe has exceeded 800,000.
As of 16:30 GMT 13 (0:30 a.m. Taiwan 14), a cumulative total of 800,361 people have been infected and untreated in 52 European countries, including Russia and Turkey, with a cumulative total of 35,395,270 confirmed cases of infection.
That puts the number of deaths from the disease in Europe ahead of Latin America and the Caribbean (2002,1361 confirmed cases and 630,834 deaths), the United States and Canada (28,310,719 confirmed cases and 500,2064 deaths) and Asia (15,641,940 confirmed cases and 247,730 deaths).
Europe as a whole averaged 4,478 deaths per day last week, down 14% from the previous week.
Since Nov. 11 last year, the average daily death rate in Europe has been at least 4,000, and reached a record high of 5,700 deaths per day at the end of January. But the number of new confirmed cases in Europe has been declining for a month.
But even though the average daily death curve is declining, the long-term trend remains the same, with 100,000 people dying every 20 days since the beginning of November. As a result, Europe surpassed 500,000 deaths on Dec. 17, 600,000 on Jan. 7 and 700,000 on Jan. 25.
The most serious epidemic in Europe is the United Kingdom with 116,908 deaths, followed by Italy with 93,045 deaths, France with 81,488 deaths, Russia with 79,696 deaths and Spain with 64,747 deaths.
According to the ratio of deaths to population, Belgium has the highest mortality rate, with 186 deaths per 100,000 people, followed by Slovenia (178), the United Kingdom (171), the Czech Republic (169) and Italy (154).
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