the official global death the toll of the coronavirus is getting closer and closer to 6 millions people as the global COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year, it seems far from complete over.
the milestone is the latest tragic reminder of the relentless nature of the pandemic even though people are losing their masks, travel is resuming and businesses are reopening around the world. the death toll, compiled by Johns Hopkins University, was 5,996,882 as of Sunday and had to pass the bar of 6 millions later in the day.
isolated islands in the Pacific, including isolation protected them for more two years, are just now struggling with their first outbreaks and deaths, fueled by the highly contagious omicron variant.
Hong Kong, which sees the dead fly away, is testing all of son population of 7.5 millions three times this month as it clings to mainland China”zero-COVID” strategy.
As death rates remain high in Poland, Hungary, Romania and other Eastern European countriesla region saw more more than a million refugees arrive of war-torn Ukraine, a country with bad vaccination coverage and high rates of cases and deaths.
And despite its wealth and the availability of vaccines, the United States is approaching one million reported deaths on her own.
Global death rates are still highest among people not vaccinated against the virus, said Tikki Pang, a visitor professor at the National University of Singapore School of Medicine and Co-Chair of the Asia-Pacific Immunization Coalition.
“It’s a disease of the unvaccinated – watch what happens in Hong Kong right now, health system is overwhelmed,” said Pang, the former director of research policy and cooperation with the World Health Organization. “The large majority of deaths and serious cases are in the unvaccinated and vulnerable segment of the population.”
This took the world seven months for record son first millions deaths from the virus after the start of the pandemic in early 2020. Four months later, another million people was dead, and 1 million have died every three months since, until the death ring hit 5 millions at the end of October. Now it has reached 6 millions – more that the populations of Berlin and Brussels together, or the whole state of Maryland.
But despite the enormity of the number, the world undoubtedly hit son 6 millionth death sometime ago. Poor record- keep and test in several parts of the world led to undercount in coronavirus deaths, in in addition to excess deaths related to the pandemic but not to actual COVID-19 infections, like people who preventable death causes but could not receive treatment because hospitals were full.
Edouard Mathieu, head of Data for our world in Data portala says that – when countries’ excess mortality figures are studied – up to nearly four times reported it death toll are probably dead because of the pandemic.
Analysis of excess mortality by a team at The Economist estimates that the number of Deaths from COVID-19 range between 14 and 23.5 millions.
“The confirmed deaths represent a fraction of the true number of deaths from COVID, mainly because of limited trials and challenges in attribution of the cause of death”, Mathieu told The Associated Press (AP). “In some, mostly wealthy, countries this fraction is high and the official the count can be considered fairly accurate, but in others, it is greatly underestimated.”
The United States has the most grand official death ring in the world but the numbers tend to go down over the last month.
the world saw more over 445 millions confirmed cases of COVID-19, and new weekly cases have been declining recently in all regions except for the Western Pacific, which includes China, Japan and South Korea, among others, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported this week.
Although the overall figures in the Pacific islands seeing their first epidemics are small compared to larger countries, they are significant among their small populations and threaten to overwhelm fragile health care systems.
“Given what we know about COVID…it is probable hit their for the next year or at least,” said Katie Greenwood, head of the Pacific Red Cross delegation.
Tonga reported son first epidemic after the arrival of the virus with international aid ships after the January 15 eruption of a massive volcano, followed by a tsunami. It now has several hundred cases, but – with 66% of son population fully vaccinated – he has so far reported people mostly suffering from mild symptoms and no deaths.
The Solomon Islands saw the first epidemic in January and now has thousands of case and more more than 100 dead. Current death the toll is probably a lot higher, with the capital’s hospital overwhelmed and many dying at homesaid Greenwood.
Only 12% of People in the Solomon Islands are fully immunized, although the outbreak has provided new boost to the country’s vaccination campaign and 29% now have at least one shoot.
Global vaccine disparity continues, with only 6.95% of people in low income countries fully vaccinated, compared to more over 73% in high-income countries, according to Our World in Data.
In one good sign at the end of last months, Africa overtook Europe in the number of doses given daily, but only about 12.5% of son population received two blows.
Africa Centers for Disease control and prevention are always pressing for more vaccines, even though it has been a challenge. Some shipments arrive with little warning for countries’ health systems and others close to the expiry date – forcing doses to be destroyed.
Eastern Europe was particularly hard hit by the omicron variant, and with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a new risk appeared like hundreds of thousands of people flee to places like Poland on crowded trains. Health officials offered free vaccines to all refugees, but did not deliver them test on arrival or quarantine.
“It’s really tragic because great stress has a very negative effect effect on natural immunity and increases the risk of infections,” said Anna Boron-Kaczmarska, a Polish infectious disease specialist. “They are in very high stress, fear for their life, life of their children family members.”
Mexico has reported 300,000 deaths, but with little test, government To analyse of death certificates met the real number closer to 500,000. Yet four weeks of the decline in infection rates has left optimistic health officials.
In India, where the world was shocked by pictures of open-air bonfires of the bodies burned as the crematoria were overwhelmed, the scars fade as the number of new cases and deaths have slowed.
India recorded more more than 500,000 dead, but experts believe that son true the toll is in the millions, mostly of the delta variant. Migrants from India’s vast hinterland are now returning to its megacities in to look for of jobs, and the streets are crowded with circulation. Shopping malls have customers, albeit still masked, while schools and universities welcome students after a months-long hiatus.
In Britain, infections have fallen since an omicron-induced surge in December, but remain high. England has now lifted all restrictions, including mask mandates and the requirement that all who test isolate positive to home.
With around 250,000 reported deaths, the smallest on the African continent death on believe the toll stems from under-reporting, as well as a population generally younger and less mobile population.
“Africa is a big interrogation point for me, car he’s been relatively spared the worst so far, but he could just to be a ticking time bomb,” Pang said, noting his low vaccination rates.
In South Africa, Soweto resident Thoko Dube said she received news of the dead of of them family members on the same day in January 2021 – one month before the country receives son first vaccines.
It was difficult, but “the family pulls it off,” she said. “We accepted it because it arrive to other families.
the official global death the toll of the coronavirus is getting closer and closer to 6 millions people as the global COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year, it seems far from complete over.
the milestone is the latest tragic reminder of the relentless nature of the pandemic even though people are losing their masks, travel is resuming and businesses are reopening around the world. the death toll, compiled by Johns Hopkins University, was 5,996,882 as of Sunday and had to pass the bar of 6 millions later in the day.
isolated islands in the Pacific, including isolation protected them for more two years, are just now struggling with their first outbreaks and deaths, fueled by the highly contagious omicron variant.
Hong Kong, which sees the dead fly away, is testing all of son population of 7.5 millions three times this month as it clings to mainland China”zero-COVID” strategy.
As death rates remain high in Poland, Hungary, Romania and other Eastern European countriesla region saw more more than a million refugees arrive of war-torn Ukraine, a country with bad vaccination coverage and high rates of cases and deaths.
And despite its wealth and the availability of vaccines, the United States is approaching one million reported deaths on her own.
Global death rates are still highest among people not vaccinated against the virus, said Tikki Pang, a visitor professor at the National University of Singapore School of Medicine and Co-Chair of the Asia-Pacific Immunization Coalition.
“It’s a disease of the unvaccinated – watch what happens in Hong Kong right now, health system is overwhelmed,” said Pang, the former director of research policy and cooperation with the World Health Organization. “The large majority of deaths and serious cases are in the unvaccinated and vulnerable segment of the population.”
This took the world seven months for record son first millions deaths from the virus after the start of the pandemic in early 2020. Four months later, another million people was dead, and 1 million have died every three months since, until the death ring hit 5 millions at the end of October. Now it has reached 6 millions – more that the populations of Berlin and Brussels together, or the whole state of Maryland.
But despite the enormity of the number, the world undoubtedly hit son 6 millionth death sometime ago. Poor record- keep and test in several parts of the world led to undercount in coronavirus deaths, in in addition to excess deaths related to the pandemic but not to actual COVID-19 infections, like people who preventable death causes but could not receive treatment because hospitals were full.
Edouard Mathieu, head of Data for our world in Data portala says that – when countries’ excess mortality figures are studied – up to nearly four times reported it death toll are probably dead because of the pandemic.
Analysis of excess mortality by a team at The Economist estimates that the number of Deaths from COVID-19 range between 14 and 23.5 millions.
“The confirmed deaths represent a fraction of the true number of deaths from COVID, mainly because of limited trials and challenges in attribution of the cause of death”, Mathieu told The Associated Press (AP). “In some, mostly wealthy, countries this fraction is high and the official the count can be considered fairly accurate, but in others, it is greatly underestimated.”
The United States has the most grand official death ring in the world but the numbers tend to go down over the last month.
the world saw more over 445 millions confirmed cases of COVID-19, and new weekly cases have been declining recently in all regions except for the Western Pacific, which includes China, Japan and South Korea, among others, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported this week.
Although the overall figures in the Pacific islands seeing their first epidemics are small compared to larger countries, they are significant among their small populations and threaten to overwhelm fragile health care systems.
“Given what we know about COVID…it is probable hit their for the next year or at least,” said Katie Greenwood, head of the Pacific Red Cross delegation.
Tonga reported son first epidemic after the arrival of the virus with international aid ships after the January 15 eruption of a massive volcano, followed by a tsunami. It now has several hundred cases, but – with 66% of son population fully vaccinated – he has so far reported people mostly suffering from mild symptoms and no deaths.
The Solomon Islands saw the first epidemic in January and now has thousands of case and more more than 100 dead. Current death the toll is probably a lot higher, with the capital’s hospital overwhelmed and many dying at homesaid Greenwood.
Only 12% of People in the Solomon Islands are fully immunized, although the outbreak has provided new boost to the country’s vaccination campaign and 29% now have at least one shoot.
Global vaccine disparity continues, with only 6.95% of people in low income countries fully vaccinated, compared to more over 73% in high-income countries, according to Our World in Data.
In one good sign at the end of last months, Africa overtook Europe in the number of doses given daily, but only about 12.5% of son population received two blows.
Africa Centers for Disease control and prevention are always pressing for more vaccines, even though it has been a challenge. Some shipments arrive with little warning for countries’ health systems and others close to the expiry date – forcing doses to be destroyed.
Eastern Europe was particularly hard hit by the omicron variant, and with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a new risk appeared like hundreds of thousands of people flee to places like Poland on crowded trains. Health officials offered free vaccines to all refugees, but did not deliver them test on arrival or quarantine.
“It’s really tragic because great stress has a very negative effect effect on natural immunity and increases the risk of infections,” said Anna Boron-Kaczmarska, a Polish infectious disease specialist. “They are in very high stress, fear for their life, life of their children family members.”
Mexico has reported 300,000 deaths, but with little test, government To analyse of death certificates met the real number closer to 500,000. Yet four weeks of the decline in infection rates has left optimistic health officials.
In India, where the world was shocked by pictures of open-air bonfires of the bodies burned as the crematoria were overwhelmed, the scars fade as the number of new cases and deaths have slowed.
India recorded more more than 500,000 dead, but experts believe that son true the toll is in the millions, mostly of the delta variant. Migrants from India’s vast hinterland are now returning to its megacities in to look for of jobs, and the streets are crowded with circulation. Shopping malls have customers, albeit still masked, while schools and universities welcome students after a months-long hiatus.
In Britain, infections have fallen since an omicron-induced surge in December, but remain high. England has now lifted all restrictions, including mask mandates and the requirement that all who test isolate positive to home.
With around 250,000 reported deaths, the smallest on the African continent death on believe the toll stems from under-reporting, as well as a population generally younger and less mobile population.
“Africa is a big interrogation point for me, car he’s been relatively spared the worst so far, but he could just to be a ticking time bomb,” Pang said, noting his low vaccination rates.
In South Africa, Soweto resident Thoko Dube said she received news of the dead of of them family members on the same day in January 2021 – one month before the country receives son first vaccines.
It was difficult, but “the family pulls it off,” she said. “We accepted it because it arrive to other families.