More than 400,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus have been registered in Europe, according to an AFP tally compiled from official sources.

The second-worst hit global region after Latin America and the Caribbean, 400,649 people have died of Covid-19 in Europe among 17,606,370 confirmed cases. Of these, 36,147 occurred in the past week alone — the continent's worst seven-day total since the pandemic began.

Britain accounted for almost two-thirds of the European deaths at 57,551 from almost 1.6 million infections, followed by Italy with 53,677 deaths and 1.5m infections, France (51,914 deaths, 2.2m cases), Spain (44,668 deaths, 1.6m cases) and Russia (39,068 deaths, 2.2m cases).