The novel coronavirus has killed more than one hundred and twenty thousand people worldwide, nearly seventy percent of them in Europe.

A total of one hundred and twenty thousand and thirteen deaths have now been recorded since the epidemic first emerged in China in December, eighty-one thousand four hundred and seventy-four of them in Europe.

Emergency medical personnel carries a patient affected with coronavirus (Covid-19) from a military hospital to an ambulance.

The figures were collated using data collected by AFP from national authorities and information from the World Health Organisation,WHO.