Coronavirus Europe: Italy passes 1 million cases, France overtakes Russia

Italy, one of the European countries hit hardest by Covid-19, surpassed the one-million infections mark on Wednesday, leapfrogging Mexico to become one of the top 10 worst-affected countries globally, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.France, meanwhile, overtook Russia as the world’s fourth-worst affected country. It reported 35,879 new coronavirus cases, taking its total to 1.86 million.Elsewhere, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky was hospitalised after he contracted Covid…

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