The coronavirus pandemic has now killed more than 160,000 people in Europe, according to an AFP tally at 1300 GMT Wednesday.
Nearly three quarters of the 160,455 victims died in the four worst-hit European countries: Britain, Italy, Spain and France. So far, 1,798,209 cases have been recorded across Europe.
The tallies, using data collected by AFP from national authorities and information from the
World Health Organization (WHO), probably reflect only a fraction of the actual number of infections.