The corona crisis has the world under control for almost two years. Now the death toll has exceeded the five million mark.
Washington – Since the corona pandemic * began, more than 245 million people have been infected with the virus. Now more than five million people worldwide have died after a Corona * infection. This is based on data from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, which the university published on Monday (November 1, 2021). At the beginning of July, the threshold of four million corona deaths was exceeded worldwide.
According to the US researchers, the number of confirmed infections is more than 246 million cases. In the case of infections and deaths around the globe, experts assume a high number of unreported cases. The UN Secretary General António Guterres described the five million mark as a “painful new threshold”. “It would be a mistake to believe that the pandemic is over.” Only five percent of the African population is fully vaccinated *.
Johns Hopkins University has higher corona numbers than WHO
The official figures from the World Health Organization (WHO) are slightly lower than those of Johns Hopkins University, whose website is regularly updated with incoming data. In some cases the numbers have been revised downwards at times. According to the WHO on Friday (October 29, 2021) there have been 4.98 million confirmed deaths and around 245 million known infections so far.
The Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus can trigger the disease Covid-19, which can be fatal. Deaths occur in all age groups, but the elderly and those with weak immune systems are particularly affected. (Lukas Zigo / dpa) * fr.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
