(Reuters) – The global number of coronavirus deaths exceeded one million on Tuesday, according to a Reuters count, a statistic that has triggered a pandemic that has devastated the global economy, overburdened fitness systems, and replaced other people’s way of life.
The number of deaths from the new coronavirus this year is now double the number of other people dying year after year of malaria, and the mortality rate has increased in recent weeks as infections build up in several countries.
“Our world has reached an agonizing stage,” UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in a statement.
“That’s an astonishing figure. However, we will never have to lose sight of the lives of each individual. They were fathers and mothers, wives and husbands, brothers, friends and colleagues. “
It only took 3 months for COVID-19 deaths to double from part one million to the mortality rate, which has accelerated since the first death in China in early January.
More than 5,400 people die internationally every 24 hours, according to Reuters estimates based on September averages, crushing funeral companies and cemeteries.
This equates to approximately 226 other people depending on the time, or one user every 16 seconds. In the time it takes to watch a 90-minute football game, an average of another 340 people die.
(Reuters Interactive Chart: https://tmsnrt. rs/2VqS5PS)
“Many other people have lost so many other people and have not had the chance to say goodbye,” said World Health Organization (WHO) spokeswoman Margaret Harris at a United Nations briefing in Geneva.
«. . . Many of the dead died in medical situations where death is extraordinarily complicated and lonely. “
WHO leader Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the world will have to unite to fight the virus.
“History will judge us about the decisions we make and what we won’t make in the coming months,” he told the Independent newspaper.
GROWING INFECTIONS
Experts continue to imply that official death and case figures around the world particularly underestimate the true count due to insufficient registration and the option of concealment across some countries.
The reaction to the pandemic pitted advocates against adequacy measures, such as blockades, who sought to maintain politically sensitive economic growth, with other approaches from one country to another.
The United States, Brazil and India, which together account for nearly 45% of all COVID-19 deaths worldwide, have lifted social estating measures in recent weeks.
“Other Americans expect cases to accumulate in the coming days,” U. S. Vice President Mike Pence warned Monday. The deaths in the United States were 205132 and the instances were 7. 18 million on Monday night.
India, on the other hand, has seen the largest spread of infections in the world, with an average of 87,500 new cases in line with the day since early September.
Given the existing trfinishs, India will overtake the United States as the highest number of instances shown until the end of the year, even as the government of Prime Minister Narfinishra Modi advances by easing lockdown measures for a suffering economy.
Despite the growing number of cases, the number of deaths in India of 96,318 and the rate of accumulation of deaths remain below those of the United States, Britain and Brazil. India on Tuesday announced its smallest accumulation of deaths since August 3. , following a recent trend of relaxation that has baffled the experts.
In Europe, which accounts for nearly 25% of deaths, WHO warned of a spread of concern in Western Europe just a few weeks before the winter flu season.
The WHO also warned that the pandemic still requires primary interventions amid the accumulation of cases in Latin America, where many countries have begun to return to general life.
Much of Asia, the first region to hit by the pandemic, is experiencing relative calm after a momentary wave.
The greatest number of deaths has led to adjustments in funeral rites around the world, with morgues and funeral companies beaten and relatives have been prevented from saying goodbye in person.
In Israel, the culture of washing the bodies of deceased Muslims is not allowed and, instead of wrapping them in a cloth, they will have to be wrapped in a plastic bag. Shiva’s Jewish culture, where other people pass into the homes of grieving parents for seven days, has also been interrupted.
In Italy, Catholics were buried at a funeral or with the blessing of a priest, while in Iraq, former militiamen dropped their weapons to dig graves in a specially created cemetery and learned how to organize Christian and Muslim burials.
In some parts of Indonesia, grieving families have entered hospitals to order corpses, for fear that their loved ones will get buried.
The United States, Indonesia, Bolivia, South Africa and Yemen had to go to new burials as cemeteries filled up.
(Information via Jane Wardell; additional information through Shaina Ahluwalia, Seerat Gupta and Stephanie Nebehay; edited through Robert Birsel and Nick Macfie)
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