The coronavirus has killed more than 90,000 people in Europe, over 65 per cent of the overall global death toll, according to an AFP.

With a total of 90,180 deaths out of some 1,047,279 infections, Europe is the hardest-hit continent by the pandemic, which has killed a total of 137,499 worldwide.

The tallies were collated using data collected from national authorities and information from the World Health Organisation.