Europe’s COVID-19 Death Count Tops 30,000

A patient with COVID-19, flown in from Italy, is admitted to a hospital in Leipzig, Germany, on March 25, 2020. Hendrik Schmidt/dpa via AP, File

The COVID-19 pandemic has killed more than 30,000 people in Europe, with Italy and Spain registering over 75 percent of the disease-related deaths.

At the time of reporting on April 1, there were 31,221 recorded deaths in Europe from the respiratory illness caused by COVID-19, according the latest data collated by Johns Hopkins University, which is tracking the global pandemic.