Shoppers walk along a shopping street, following the introduction of new coronavirus measures, in Stockholm, Sweden, on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021. According to forecasts from the country's public health agency, Sweden could see the highest number of daily infections since the beginning of the pandemic within a few weeks. - Bloomberg
PARIS, Jan 2, 2022 (AFP): Europe has recorded over 100 million coronavirus cases, more than a third of all infections worldwide, since the start of the pandemic, an AFP tally on Saturday (Jan 1) showed.
The continent has once again become the pandemic's epicentre in recent months, and is battling an upsurge of cases spurred on by the highly transmissible Omicron strain of the virus.
