COVID-19 death toll in Europe tops 2M: WHO


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A woman wearing a face mask walks past an NHS (National Health Service) COVID-19 Vaccination Centre in London, Britain, on March 31, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua] The number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths has exceeded two million in Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe said on Thursday. The cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the region has surpassed 218 million, and 2,003,081 COVID-19-related deaths have been reported. "While this number is devastating, it represents a fraction of the overall deaths directly and indirectly associated with COVID-19, as the WHO's report on excess mortality during the pandemic has shown,"...