The first COVID-19 death was reported on Jan. 10 in Wuhan, China but it was early April before the death toll passed 100,000, according to the Reuters tally of official reports from governments. It took 24 days to go from 300,000 to 400,000 deaths. The United States has the highest...
The highest death tolls come from the U.S., Brazil and India, according toJohns Hopkins University. Together they make up more than 40% of the global count. India has surpassed 6 million reported cases of the virus, becoming the second country behind the U.S. to reach that many infection...
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide has surpassed 139 million, with the death toll approaching 3 million and more than 78 million recoveries, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University. Here is the latest: The Chinese mainland recorded 15 new CO...
More than three times as many people may have died worldwide as a result of the covid-19 pandemic than official statistics suggest, according to the first peer reviewed study of global excess deaths.1 The research, published in the Lancet , estimates there were 18.2 million excess deaths ...
"This research clearly confirms that despite high rates of COVID-19 in the United States, the number of people with antibodies is still low and we haven't come close to achieving herd immunity. Until an effective vaccine is approved, we need to make sure our more vulnerable populations are...
RELATED:COVID-19’s global death toll this year has already surpassed 2020’s count "Now, this brings up an important question: As long as you have virus replicating anywhere in the world, the chances of developing variants are considerable, which will ultimately come back and could perhaps ...
BEIJING, April 29 (Xinhua) -- The global death toll from COVID had surpassed 200,000 as of Tuesday, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO COVID-19 dashboard updated at 5:00 CET (0400 GMT) Wednesday showed that so far it has received reports of 2,959,929 confirme...
This study assesses estimates of new orphanhood based on excess deaths to provide a comprehensive measure of the COVID-19 pandemic’s long-term impact on
In Europe, countries are feeling the brunt of a more contagious variant that first ravaged Britain and has pushed the continent’s COVID-19-related death toll beyond 1 million. Close to 6,000 gravely ill patients are being treated in French critical care units, numbers not seen since the fi...
GENEVA - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday said that it has recorded over four million COVID-19-related deaths globally, but the organization's Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, added that the overall death toll is likely underestimated. ...