The novel coronavirus has killed more than 120,000 people worldwide, nearly 70 percent of them in Europe, according to a tally compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT Tuesday from official sources.

A total of 120,013 deaths have now been recorded since the epidemic first emerged in China in December, 81,474 of them in Europe.


Emergency medical personnel carries a patient affected with coronavirus (Covid-19) from a military hospital to an ambulance. (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP)

The figures were collated using data collected by AFP from national authorities and information from the World Health Organization (WHO).