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Corona death-toll in Europe up 40 percent
By EUobserver
The death toll from Covid-19 in Europe rose 40 percent last week, in a sign hospitals are struggling to cope, the World Health Organisation said Tuesday. "We're seeing an intense and indeed alarming increase in cases and deaths," a WHO spokeswoman told the BBC, highlighting figures in France, Spain, The Netherlands, and Russia. "Intensive care units in hospitals are now beginning to fill with very ill people," she said.