Global COVID-19 death toll exceeds 4m
Coronavirus-related deaths worldwide passed a grim milestone of 4 million on Thursday, according to a Reuters tally, as much countries battle to procure enough vaccines to inoculate their populations.
While the number of new cases and deaths have abated in countries just like the United States and Britain, several nations have vaccine shortages as the Delta variant becomes the dominant strain all over the world.
It took over a year for the COVID-19 death toll going to 2 million, as the next 2 million were recorded in only 166 days, according to a Reuters analysis.
The most notable five countries by total number of deaths - america, Brazil, India, Russia and Mexico - represent about 50% of most deaths on the globe, while Peru, Hungary, Bosnia, the Czech Republic and Gibraltar have the best death rates when adjusted for population.
Countries in Latin America are facing their worst outbreak since March, with 43 of every 100 infections on earth being reported in your community, according to a Reuters analysis. The most notable nine countries reporting the most deaths per capita over the last week were all in Latin America.
Hospitals in Bolivia, Chile and Uruguay are largely seeing COVID-19 patients between your ages of 25 and 40 as the trend toward younger patients continued. In Brazil's Sao Paulo, 80% of intensive care units (ICU) occupants are COVID-19 patients.
Soaring deaths are straining the operating capacity of crematoriums in developing nations and gravediggers in several countries have already been forced to expand cemeteries with row after row of new tombs.
India and Brazil will be the countries reporting the most deaths every day on a seven-day average and are still troubled with cremation woes and insufficient burial space. India accounts for one in every three deaths reported worldwide every day, according to a Reuters analysis.
Many health experts assume that official death toll to be undercounted globally, with the World Health Organization (WHO) last month estimating fatalities to be much higher.
The other day, the Indian state of Bihar raised its COVID-19 death toll sharply higher following the discovery of thousands of unreported cases, lending weight to concerns that India’s overall death tally is considerably more than the official figure.
As poorer nations struggle to inoculate their populations due to vaccine shortages, wealthier countries have been urged to donate more to regulate the pandemic.
“The principal issue in the Americas is vaccine access, not vaccine acceptance,” Pan American Health Organisation Director Carissa Etienne said Wednesday, urging donor countries to send shots immediately.
The Group of Seven (G7) rich nations had pledged to supply 1 billion COVID-19 vaccinations to greatly help poorer countries vaccinate their populations.
