Global cases are approaching 7 million, with about 2 million, or 30%, of those cases in the United States. Latin America has the second-largest outbreak with over 15% of cases, according to Reuters tally. The first COVID-19 death was reported on Jan. 10 in Wuhan, China but it was e...
There were 14.9 million excess deaths associated with Covid-19 by the end of 2021, the UN body said on Thursday. The official count of deaths directly attributable to Covid-19 and reported to WHO in that period, from January 2020 to the end of December 2021, is slight...
The sobering milestone comes as some nations begin to ease COVID-19 restrictions and medical experts sound the alarm of rising deadly variants of the disease. Despite data indicating that the pandemic is improving in the U.S. and other parts of the world, the global death toll this year has...
The true number of people who have died as a result of COVID-19 could be as high as 6m to 8m – more than twice the official figure,the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. The official global death toll for 2020 was 1.8m people, but presenting its a...
Number of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths worldwide as of May 2, 2023, by country and territory Number of deaths6,866,7336,866,7331,161,1641,161,164701,494701,494531,547531,547398,336398,336333,895333,895223,396223,396220,122220,122189,738189,738173,044173,044166,556166,556161,300161,...
Since 22 March 2020, global data is compiled through WHO region-specific dashboards, and/or aggregate count data reported to WHO headquarters. WHO COVID-19 Dashboard is updated every Friday for the period of two weeks prior. Counts primarily reflect laboratory-confirmed cases and deaths, ...
WHO said it wasn’t yet able to break down the data to distinguish between direct deaths from COVID-19 and those related to effects of the pandemic, but the agency plans a future project examining death certificates. “This may seem like just a bean-counting exercise, but ha...
March 6, 2020 - US deaths total 19, infected is 390. CDC estimates death rate is well below 1% and seems limited to the elderly and those with other health conditions, especially respiratory. Children appear to be the least affected group. Global infections are close to 100,000 and around...
Overall, with this new approach, the global death rate for COVID-19 is 6.9 million (as of May 2021), more than double the official count. Final Thoughts With this new data, perhaps people will make more of an effort to stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic by getting vaccinate...
For scientific and fact-based death counts, Jiao said that a national platform aimed at collecting and analyzing deaths linked to COVID-19 was established. Starting on Dec 31, medical institutions across the country were required to report related deaths for the previous day to the platform. In...