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Europe becomes first region to hit 1M COVID-19 deaths: report
Coronavirus-related deaths in the European region surpassed 1 million on Friday as vaccination efforts attempt to keep up with new variants causing a third wave of infections that could once again overwhelm hospitals.Since the pandemic began, at least 37,221,978 infections and 1,000,062 million deaths were reported in the European region, according to a Reuters tally. Fast-spreading variants boost coronavirus surge across Europe The region, which includes 51 countries, has about 35.5% of all coronavirus deaths and 30.5% of all cases in the world.