Europe first region to cross 50m Covid cases

Europe became the first region worldwide to cross 50 million Covid-19 cases on Monday, according to a Reuters tally, as the more contagious Delta variant spurred a record surge in daily new infections.

The region is seeing a million new infections about every eight days and has reported nearly 1.3 million deaths since the pandemic began. Europe remains one of the worst-affected regions worldwide and has reported 27% of global cases and 31% of global deaths. It took 194 days for Europe to go from 25 million to 50 million cases while the first 25 million cases were reported in 350 days, as per the tally. Russia, the worst-affected European country, is on the verge of crossing 6 million cases. Reuters