A user dies from Covid every 16 seconds
Medical staff tend to an ambulance stretcher outside the Maimonides Medical Center in Borough Park, where 3 members of the city’s Orthodox Jewish communities have died from the coronavirus. (Photo via Spencer Platt / Getty Images)
The global death toll from COVID-19 has surpassed 1 million, according to a Reuters tally, a grim level in a pandemic that has devastated the global economy, overloaded fitness systems and replaced other people’s way of life.
The number of deaths from the new coronavirus this year now doubles the number of other people dying from malaria in the year, and the death rate has risen in recent weeks as infections rise in several countries.
“Our world has reached an agonizing stage,” United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in a statement.
“It is a staggering number. However, we will never have to lose sight of the lives of each individual. They were fathers and mothers, wives and husbands, siblings, friends and colleagues. “
It only took 3 months for COVID-19 deaths to double to part of a million, a death rate that has accelerated since the first recorded death in China in early January.
More than 5,400 people die internationally every 24 hours, according to Reuters calculations based on September averages, crushing funeral homes and cemeteries.
This works for another 226 people based on time, or one user every 16 seconds. In the time it takes to watch a 90-minute soccer game, an average of 340 more people die.
INFECTIONS ON THE RISE
Experts remain implicated in the fact that the official figures for deaths and cases around the world, in particular, insufficiently represent the true count due to insufficient registration and the option of cover-up across some countries.
The reaction to the pandemic pitted those who took adaptation measures, such as closures, as opposed to those who sought politically delicate 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 globally, have lifted social distancing measures in recent weeks.
“Other Americans will have to anticipate that cases will accumulate in the coming days,” US Vice President Mike Pence warned Monday.
India, for its part, has seen the world’s fastest expansion in infections, averaging 87,500 new cases in line with the day since the beginning of September.
According to existing trfinishs, India will overtake the United States as the country with the most instances shown until the end of the year, even as the government of Prime Minister Narfinishra Modi makes progress with easing foreclosure measures for a suffering economy. .
Despite the increase in cases, the death toll in India is around 95,500 and the rate of expansion of deaths remains lower than in the United States, Britain and Brazil.
In Europe, which accounts for about 25% of deaths, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned of a spread of concern in Western Europe a few weeks before the winter flu season.
The WHO also warned that the pandemic still requires primary interventions amid emerging 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.
BURIED STRAIN
The increased death toll has led to adjustments in funeral rites around the world, and mortuaries and funeral homes have been hit and funeral companies prevented from firing in person.
In Israel, the culture of washing the bodies of deceased Muslims is not allowed, and instead of wrapping them in cloth, they will have to wrap them in a plastic bag. The Jewish culture of Shiva, where other people go to the homes of grieving relatives for seven days, has also been disrupted.
In Italy, Catholics were buried at a funeral or with the blessing of a priest, while in Iraq, former militiamen laid down their weapons to dig graves in a specially created cemetery and learned how to organize Christian burials. and Muslims.
In parts of Indonesia, grieving families have stormed hospitals to ask for bodies, fearing those they have enjoyed will be properly buried.
An indigenous organization from the Ecuadorian Amazon has taken hostage two policemen and a state official, it is not easy for the government to return to the framework of a network leader for a classic burial.
The United States, Indonesia, Bolivia, South Africa, and Yemen had to go to new burial sites as cemeteries filled up.