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Europe is epicentre of coronavirus pandemic: WHO

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Geneva | Europe has now become the epicentre of a coronavirus pandemic that has claimed 5000 lives around the world, "a tragic milestone", the World Health Organisation said.

More than 132,000 cases of the virus have been reported in 123 countries since it emerged in December in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual news conference.

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