Europe has surpassed 75 million Covid-19 cases on Friday since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the latest update of Reuters’ Covid-19 tally.
Europe reached the milestone as the region braces for the new Omicron variant, with more than 15 European countries reporting confirmed cases of the new strain.
The European Union’s public health agency estimates that the variant could be responsible for more than 50% of all Covid-19 infections in Europe within a few months.
However, Europe has long been the pandemic’s epicenter before the emergence of Omicron, with 66 out of every 100 new infections each day coming from European countries, according to Reuters.
Several European countries tightened restrictions in face of this surge, from Austria’s full lockdown to restrictions on the unvaccinated in parts of Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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