WHO says Europe faces tough 6 months ahead in the pandemic

The World Health Organisation has warned a "tough" six months lies ahead for Europe, which is once again the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The WHO says the continent recorded more than 29,000 new COVID-19 deaths last week.

It means that one person dying every 17 seconds.

So far, Europe has seen 15,738,179 confirmed infections and 354,154 deaths attributed to the coronavirus, with only the Americas reporting higher region-wide figures, according to WHO data.

A large portion of those infections and deaths have been registered in the UK, Russia, France, Spain, Italy and Germany.

In Europe, the UK has the highest death toll at 53,870, while France has the highest number of cases at 2,115,717.

There are now more than 56 million global COVID-19 cases with 1.3 million deaths according to data collated by Johns Hopkins University in the US.

[Source: BBC]