Over Six Million people have died worldwide from COVID-19

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Over 6m people have died worldwide from COVID-19​

Average global daily deaths over the past seven days have fallen to 7,170, down 18% in a week​

By AFP
March 08, 2022

A total of 6,001,585 people have succumbed to the COVID-19 worldwide. Photo: AFP


PARIS: Over six million people have died worldwide from COVID-19 since the pandemic began, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP on Tuesday.

A total of 6,001,585 people have succumbed to the virus, AFP counted at 0900 GMT.

The milestone comes as the number of infections and deaths continue to plummet in most regions of the world, except in Asia, where Hong Kong is suffering its worst-ever outbreak, and Oceania, where New Zealand has recorded a jump in cases.

Average global daily deaths over the past seven days have fallen to 7,170, down 18% in a week, continuing a trend seen since the peak of the Omicron wave in mid-February despite many countries relaxing restrictions.

The United States has recorded 960,311 deaths from the coronavirus, followed by Brazil on 652,341 and India on 515,102.
While much of the world is learning to live with the disease, China remains committed to stamping it out and has instructed Hong Kong to also pursue a zero-tolerance approach.

Hong Kong has launched controversial plans to test all 7.4 million residents and build a network of isolation camps. The number of weekly infections in the city has doubled in a week to 290,987 while the number of deaths has more than tripled to 1,543.
AFP's tally is based on COVID-19 deaths reported by national health authorities.

The World Health Organization believes that the real figure could be two to three times higher.

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Over 6m people have died worldwide from COVID-19

PARIS: Over six million people have died worldwide from COVID-19 since the pandemic began, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP on Tuesday.A total of 6,001,585 people have...

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[MultaniGuy]

Wow, sad. I hope everyone stays safe.

 

[Aesterix]

And hundreds of millions went into poverty due to that.

 

[SaadH]

BS figure, at least 10 million died in India alone.

 

[UKBengali]

Does anyone want to hazard a guess as to how many people died of non-Covid-19 causes in the last 2 years?

It is well over 100 million.

Most of those that have died from Covid-19 within the last 2 years would in all statistical probability be dead now or within the next 3-6 months as they were at death's door anyway.

We need to move on and stop obsessing over what was never a serious virus to 90% of the world's population and is now totally insignificant.

 

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Covid cases in Asia surpass 100 million​

Coronavirus infections in Asia have passed 100 million, according to a Reuters tally, as the region records a resurgence in cases, dominated by the BA.2 Omicron sub-variant.

The region is reporting over one million new Covid-19 cases about every two days, according to a Reuters analysis. With more than half of the world's population, Asia contributes 21 per cent of all reported Covid-19 cases.

The highly contagious but less deadly BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron has pushed the figures to greater highs in recent weeks in countries such as South Korea, China and Vietnam. BA.2 now represents nearly 86pc of all sequenced cases, according to the World Health Organisation.

A worker in a protective suit sits on plastic stools following the coronavirus outbreak in Shanghai, China on Wednesday. — Reuters
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The Covid pandemic has caused the deaths of nearly 15 million people around the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates.


That is 13% more deaths than normally expected over two years.
The WHO believes many countries undercounted the numbers who died from Covid - only 5.4 million were reported.

In India, there were 4.7 million Covid deaths, it says - 10 times the official figures - and almost a third of Covid deaths globally.

The Indian government has questioned the estimate, saying it has "concerns" about the methodology, but other studies have come to similar conclusions about the scale of deaths in the country.

The measure used by the WHO is called excess deaths - how many more people died than would normally be expected based on mortality in the same area before the pandemic hit.

These calculations also take into account deaths which were not directly because of Covid but instead caused by its knock-on effects, like people being unable to access hospitals for the care they needed. It also accounts for poor record-keeping in some regions, and sparse testing at the start of the crisis.

But the WHO said the majority of the extra 9.5 million deaths seen above the 5.4 million Covid deaths reported were thought to be direct deaths caused by the virus, rather than indirect deaths.

Speaking about the scale of the figures, Dr Samira Asma, from the WHO's data department, said "It's a tragedy.

"It's a staggering number and it's important for us to honour the lives that are lost, and we have to hold policymakers accountable," she said.

"If we don't count the dead, we will miss the opportunity to be better prepared for the next time."

Alongside India, countries with the highest total excess deaths included Russia, Indonesia, USA, Brazil, Mexico and Peru, the WHO figures suggest. The numbers for Russia are three-and-a-half times the country's recorded deaths.

The report also looks at the rates of excess deaths relative to each country's population size. The UK's excess mortality rate - like America, Spain and Germany - was above the global average during 2020 and 2021.

Countries with low excess mortality rates included China, which is still pursuing a policy of "zero Covid" involving mass testing and quarantines, Australia, which imposed strict travel restrictions to keep the virus out of the country, Japan and Norway.

The academics who helped compile the report admit their estimates are more speculative for countries in sub-Saharan Africa, because there is little data on deaths in the region. There were no reliable statistics for 41 out of 54 countries in Africa.

Statistician Prof Jon Wakefield, from Seattle's University of Washington, helped the WHO and told the BBC: "We urgently need better data collection systems.
"It is a disgrace that people can be born and die - and we have no record of their passing.

"So we really need to invest in countries' registration systems so we can get accurate and timely data."