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Cases and deaths continue to rise around the world, and scientists have yet to find a vaccine against the coronavirus.
The world reached on Monday (9/28) the impressive mark of 1 million deaths from covid-19, a disease that was officially detected for the first time at the end of last year in China and that reached the status of a global pandemic in March of this year.
The data is based on statistics compiled by the US Johns Hopkins University, which recorded precisely 1,000,555 deaths at 9:47 pm Monday in Brasilia. But most officials believe that the actual number of coronavirus cases and deaths is much higher, and that the 1 million death mark was already surpassed several weeks ago.
Since the onset of the disease, 33 million cases of coronavirus have been officially recorded worldwide, including people currently ill, people who have died, and those who have recovered.
Although in some places there is a sense that the pandemic is somehow under control, with the end of the quarantine in several countries and the resumption of most economic activities, statistics show that the coronavirus remains as contagious and deadly as it was at the beginning of the pandemic.
First wave still
In some countries and cities, there is talk of a “second wave”, with an increase in the figures in August and September, after a fall in the previous months.
But from a global point of view, the world is still experiencing the first wave of the disease.
On September 24, the world registered 360,000 new cases of coronavirus in a single day, according to data from Johns Hopkins. It was the daily record in college statistics since the start of the pandemic.
The number of daily cases of covid-19 worldwide is now more than three times higher than the daily average for April, a period in which Brazil, Europe and the United States, among other parts of the world, began to face harsh Quarantine measures .
In other words, the planet has never managed to lower the daily average of new coronavirus cases – or “lower the curve,” as experts say – and the pandemic continues to accelerate.
With the deaths, there was a slowdown in the months of May and June. But the number of people dying from covid-19 is increasing again on the planet.
In the last 30 days, an average of 5,300 people have died daily from covid-19 in the world. This figure is lower than the daily average for April (6,300) but higher than that registered in June (4,400 cases per day).
Brazil in the ‘top 4’ twice
Covid-19 is present in most countries in the world, but only four of them account for more than 50% of the million deaths: the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico.
The same pattern applies to the number of cases: more than 50% of the 33 million registered coronavirus cases in the world occurred in just four countries: the United States, India, Brazil and Russia.
In Brazil, there was a slowdown in the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths, which had peaked in the last week of July. Even so, the country remains on a high plateau, close to the same levels recorded in June.
Covid-19 has killed more people in Brazil this year (141,000 people) than homicides and traffic accidents combined (110,000 people) killed in 2017, the last year with updated records.
The world continues without a vaccine against the virus. Currently 11 experiments are in the third phase of testing, in which the substance is tested with a large number of people.
China and Russia have already approved vaccines for limited use in their countries, without waiting for the results of phase three trials, which many experts say is risky.
