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Source, Reuters
The Reuters news agency announced that 400,000 cases of Covid-19 were detected worldwide on Friday, a record.
Europe, which has seen a large increase in the number of cases in recent weeks, is the current center of the second wave of the epidemic.
In its analysis, Reuters noted that European countries have reported 140,000 new cases per day over the past week, and this is more than the total number of new cases in the United States, Brazil and India, which were severely affected by the epidemic.
According to Reuters analysis, 34 out of 100 new cases worldwide were detected in Europe.
The region currently reports 1 million new cases every nine days, with a total of 6.3 million cases in the region since the outbreak began.
About half of the cases in Europe occurred in the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Russia during the week of October 12, according to the Reuters census.
Dr Hans Kluge, European director of the World Health Organization (WHO), said on Thursday: “The epidemiological situation in Europe is very serious. Daily cases are increasing, hospital admissions are increasing and Covid-19 is the fifth leading cause of death, “said Dr. He said he died from coronavirus.
France is the country that has reported the average number of cases in Europe in the last seven days, with a daily figure of 19,425 cases. Britain, Russia, Spain and the Netherlands follow France.
