A statistic by Reuters showed that Europe has become the first region in the world to exceed half a million corona deaths today, Tuesday, while a new strain of the virus discovered in Britain threatens measures to limit the spread of the pandemic in the region..
Reports of the emergence of the new strain outside England caused a general lockdown before Christmas and forced dozens of countries to close their borders to those coming from Britain this week..
On Sunday, Italy, which has the largest number of deaths from the Coronavirus, discovered a patient with the new strain, and the same thing happened in Denmark and France..
To limit the spread of the new strain, European countries are looking to screen travelers on flights coming from Britain and require them to quarantine upon their arrival.
And earlier this month, Britain became the first country to grant a license to the vaccine companies Pfizer and Biontech to prevent Covid-19, followed by the United States, the European Union and other countries..
According to a Reuters count, Europe has recorded about 30 percent of the deaths and cases of Covid-19 worldwide so far..
The death rate from the virus has accelerated in Europe in recent months. Since the first death from Covid-19 in France in February, the region has recorded 250,000 cases in eight months. In just 60 days, the number of deaths rose from 250,000 to half a million.
France, Spain, Italy, Britain and Russia each record hundreds of deaths every day. In the five countries, 60 percent of the total number of deaths in the region.
A Reuters statistic showed that the number of HIV cases worldwide has reached 77.52 million currently, and that the number of deaths has reached 1.71 million..
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