Since the start of the pandemic, Europe has seen over 100 million coronavirus cases, accounting for more than a third of all infections worldwide, according to an AFP tally released Saturday.

In recent months, the continent has once again become the epicentre of the pandemic, with an increase in cases fueled by the virus’s highly transmissible Omicron strain.

Over the past two years, the European region, which includes 52 countries and territories stretching from the Atlantic coast to Azerbaijan and Russia, has recorded 100,074,753 Covid-19 infections, according to an AFP tally of official figures released at 18:45 GMT.

More than a third of the 288,279,803 cases reported worldwide since the pandemic began in late 2019 in China are represented by this figure.

Over 4.9 million European infections have been reported in just the last seven days, with 17 of the 52 countries or territories breaking their previous record for the most cases in a single week.

Over the last week, France has reported over one million new cases, accounting for 10% of all positive cases reported since the pandemic began.

The world’s countries with the highest infection rate per 100,000 people were all in Europe. Denmark received the lowest score of 2,045, followed by Cyprus (1,969) and Ireland (1,964).

Although AFP’s calculations are based on official data, some infections may have gone undetected due to asymptomatic patients.

Covid-related deaths, on the other hand, are on the decline in Europe.

Over the past week, Europe saw an average of 3,413 coronavirus deaths per day, down 7% from the previous week. In January of last year, the average was 5,735 deaths per day.

The European continent’s population is now, on average, more vaccinated than the global average.

According to the “Our World in Data” website, 65% of Europeans are partially vaccinated, while 61% are fully vaccinated, which is higher than the global averages of 58 and 49 percent.

The World Health Organization estimates that the global death toll could be two to three times higher if Covid-19-related excess mortality is factored in.

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