Coronavirus | Europe COVID-19 death toll tops 90,000

Europe is the hardest-hit continent by the pandemic

A health department employee measures the body temperature of around 160 Romanian seasonal workers after landing at Hahn Airport in Hahn in Germany.

The coronavirus has killed more than 90,000 people in Europe, over 65% of the overall global death toll, according to an AFP tally on Thursday.

With a total of 90,180 deaths out of some 1,047,279 infections, Europe is the hardest-hit continent by the pandemic, which has killed a total of 137,499 worldwide.

The tallies were collated using data collected by AFP from national authorities and information from the World Health Organization (WHO).