Coronavirus death toll tops 10,000 worldwide as crisis continues to escalate in Europe

The coronavirus death toll has topped 10,000 worldwide, doubling in one week, as the crisis continues to escalate in Europe

Almost half of all COVID-19 deaths have occurred in Europe, with Italy reporting devastatingly high numbers every day

China, where the killer virus first emerged, accounts for a third of all victims, having battled the disease since December 2019

More than 245,000 cases have been reported across the globe, soaring from 100,000 reported just two weeks ago

More than half (164,600) are outside of China, despite it originally reporting 90 per cent of all cases in the early days of the pandemic.