Over 900,000 deaths worldwide due to coronavirus
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Over 900,000 people have died around the world so far as a result of coronavirus infection, the AFP agency reported. The numbers are based on its own calculations. The same number is also documented by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
According to Hopkins University, more than 27.6 million infections have been reported since the start of the pandemic, and more than 18.6 million people have recovered. 905,624 people died.
The country with the highest mortality for many weeks is the United States, where over 190,000 people have died so far. . Second on this tragic list is Brazil (over 127,000), the third is India (almost 74,000), and the fourth is Mexico (over 68,000).
In Africa, the coronavirus takes the biggest death toll in South Africa, where over 15,000 people have died so far. . In Europe, which was the epicenter of the pandemic in April, the largest number of people died in Britain – over 41,000. people.
Many health experts around the world believe that the true death toll of the virus, which emerged in China late last year, is much higher than official figures indicate, because many people pass away without being tested.
(PAP)
