Coronavirus death toll around the world surpasses 120,000

The death toll of the novel coronavirus has killed over 120,000 people worldwide.

Nearly 70 percent of the deaths occurred in Europe, according to a tally compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT Tuesday from official sources.

A total of 120,013 deaths have now been recorded since the epidemic first emerged in China in December, 81,474 of them in Europe.

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