Global Covid-19 death toll passes one million - but the true figure is likely higher

The virus has transformed the world. Image: SIPA USA/PA Images The virus has transformed the world. Image: SIPA USA/PA Images THE WORLDWIDE DEATH toll from the coronavirus has passed one million, nine months into a crisis that has devastated the global economy, and forced many to change the way they live, learn and work.

The professor of medical history, who has advised government officials on containing pandemics and lost his 84-year-old mother to Covid-19 in February, added: “It’s our brothers, our sisters. It’s people we know.The bleak milestone, recorded by Johns Hopkins University, is greater than the population of Jerusalem and more than four times the number of people killed in the 2004 earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean.

Graves being dug in Brazil, which has recorded the second largest number of deaths from Covid-19. Source: DPA/PA ImagesWhen the virus overwhelmed cemeteries in the Italian province of Bergamo last spring, the Reverend Mario Carminati opened his church to the dead, lining up 80 coffins in the centre aisle.Related Read 28.09.20 Decision expected this week on Covid-19 restrictions for Louth, Cork, Wicklow and Galway“This thing should make us all reflect.

Government leaders in countries like Germany, South Korea and New Zealand worked effectively to contain it.Others, like US President Donald Trump and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, dismissed the severity of the threat and the guidance of scientists, even as hospitals filled with gravely ill patients. The pandemic’s toll of one million dead in such a limited time rivals some of the gravest threats to public health, past and present.The toll is approaching the 1.5 million global deaths each year from tuberculosis, which regularly kills more people than any other infectious disease.

From or with? That is the question!

Underlying illnesses?

Only another 7,799,000,000 to go.

Pure garbage, and you know it. 'The virus' (first virus ever, you see) has been the direct and sole cause of FAR FEWER than 1 million deaths. Dying 'with' Sars-Cov-2 when you're dying of something else anyway is not dying 'because' of the virus. Tick-tock you frauds!

1 million out of 7.7 billion people

:)

Nonsense.

It’s much higher! They don’t count it if you tested positive 28 days earlier

More scam numbers

with another scaremongering article. Gutter Journalism as usual

BS

stop counting motorbike deaths in your fake number BS data ---

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