There are already more than 3 million deaths from the coronavirus worldwide

Coronavirus deaths exceeded 3 million in the world, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

According to the latest update from the American private university, 3,001,068 people died worldwide from COVID-19 disease, the majority United States (566,224). Then he follows Brazil (368.749), Mexico (211.693), India (175,649) and UK (127,472).

After a slight truce in March, the number of deaths per day rose again around the world, exceeding on average 12,000 deaths per day last week, approaching the 14,500 daily deaths recorded at the end of January, at the height of the crisis.

The pandemic is in “A critical point”, considered Monday the World Health Organization (WHO), with strong differences between countries such as Israel, who managed to stop it thanks to a intense vaccination campaignand others, like India, which are facing a dramatic rebound in infections and deaths.

The Director-General of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned on Friday that world “nears highest COVID-19 infection rate to date during pandemic”, due to the sharp increase in cases in different countries.

the United Kingdom, the country in Europe most affected by the COVID-19 disease records these days a thirty deaths a day, having peaked at the end of January when it reported over 1,200 a day.

The country, which last Monday left for more than three months in detention, launched a massive vaccination campaign in early December through which 60% of its adult population has already received at least one dose of a coronavirus inoculant.

Meanwhile at United States, the country most affected by the pandemic in the world, cases have slowed sharply since the end of January, although in some states the numbers are on the rise again.

The benefits of vaccination are also visible in Israel, where six in ten people have received at least one dose of the vaccine. The country reports six or seven deaths from COVID-19 per day, almost 10 times less than it reported at the end of January.

Instead, several states they barely stop the explosion of the crates. The WHO technical officer, Maria Van Kerkhove, alerted last Tuesday that the pandemic is “expanding” and “growing exponentially”.

At Brazil, the second country with the most deaths in the world due to the coronavirus, are announced around 3000 deaths every day, that is to say almost a quarter of the total reported daily across the planet. That’s more than double the number of daily deaths in the country as of mid-February. Since March 7, the South American giant has been the nation with the most deaths from COVID-19 in the world.

Deaths are also accelerating India. In the country, out of 1300 million inhabitants, there are more than 1000 deaths every day, nine times more than those reported in early March. The increase is similar to that of infections (more than 188,000 per day, while at the beginning of March there were around 15,000).

Since the start of the pandemic, more than 139 million cases of COVID-19 worldwide.

(With information from the AP and AFP)

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