The global number of coronavirus death has increased by one million, nine months after the onset of a crisis that devastated the global economy and forced many others to replace the way they live, report and work.
The death toll, compiled through Johns Hopkins University, fell to seven in the early hours of Tuesday.
Dr Howard Markel of the University of Michigan said, “This isn’t just a number. They’re human beings. These are the other people we love. “
The medical history professor, who pleaded with government officials over the pandemic and lost his 84-year-old mother to Covid-19 in February, added: “These are our brothers, our sisters. These are other people we know.
“And if you don’t have that human thing in front of you, it’s very simple to make it abstract. “
The dark landmark, recorded through Johns Hopkins University, is larger than the population of Jerusalem and more than 4 times the number of others killed in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.
However, the actual figure is thought to be higher due to insufficient or inconsistent evidence and reports and suspicions of cover-up in some countries.
The death toll continues to rise, with nearly 5,000 more reported deaths per day.
Parts of Europe are affected by a momentary wave, and experts fear that the same fate will await the United States, which has about 205,000 deaths, or one-fifth of those in the world.
Mark Honigsbaum, writer of The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Arrogance, said: “I can sense why . . . the numbers are wasting their surprise power, but I still think it’s vital that we perceive the magnitude of those numbers. “
When the virus invaded cemeteries in the Italian province of Bergamo last spring, the Reverend Mario Carminati opened his church to the dead, aligning coffins in the central corridor.
Finally, the crisis receded and the world’s attention changed, control of the pandemic continues.
In August, Reverend Carminati buried his 34-year-old nephew.
“This makes us all think. The challenge is that we all think we are immortal,” the priest said.
The virus first gave the impression in 2019 to patients treated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the first death was reported on January 11.
By the time the government closed the city two weeks later, millions of travelers had come and gone and the Chinese government criticized the fact that it had done enough to alert other countries to the threat.
Heads of countries such as Germany, South Korea and New Zealand have worked well to involve him.
Others, such as U. S. President Donald Trump and Brazilian Jair Bolsonaro, rejected the severity of the risk and the recommendation of scientists, even as hospitals fed on critical patients.
Brazil had the number of deaths after the United States, with about 142,000 inhabitants, India ranks third, and Mexico ranks fourth, with more than 76,000 inhabitants.
The virus has forced compromises between security and economic well-being, and possible options have left millions of people vulnerable, especially the poor, minorities and the elderly.
The death toll from a $1 million pandemic in such a short time competes with some of the most serious threats to public health, beyond and present.
It surpasses the annual AIDS deaths, which last year resulted in the deaths of approximately 690,000 people worldwide.
The death toll is close to 1. 5 million international deaths each year from tuberculosis, killing more people than any other infectious disease.
Lawrence Gostin, professor of global aptitude law at Georgetown University, said: “Covid’s control over humanity is incomparably greater than that of the reasons for death.
“We’re just at the beginning. We’ll see many more weeks before this pandemic than we had. “
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