Deaths due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) are expected to exceed 1 million by Sunday afternoon and the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that another million could die before the pandemic is under control, a reminder of the unprecedented death toll charged. because of the crisis that has shown few signs of abating.
Sunday is also when the number of confirmed infections in India is likely to exceed 6 million, as its death count is approaching 95,000.
“Unless we do it all, (2 million deaths) … not only imaginable, but unfortunately very likely,” said Mike Ryan, director of the UN agency’s emergency program on Friday night. , adding: the forest anywhere “.
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Overall, there are at least 32 million confirmed infections, according to worldometers.info.
Three countries, the United States, India and Brazil, have been the most affected, registering more than 17 million infections between them, and together they represent almost 55% of all cases and more than 44% of all deaths in the world.
In India, the total number of infections surpassed 5.99 million on Saturday after 88,951 new infections were recorded in the past 24 hours. Currently, the country has 957,414 active cases and the death toll is 94,539, quickly approaching the 100,000 mark by adding an average of 1,109 deaths per day in the last week.
India has had the world’s worst Covid-19 outbreak since the first week of August, accounting for more than a quarter of all those recorded since then. In the last week, nearly one in three (29.9%) new infections reported worldwide and one in five deaths (20.9%) came from India.
But, in what has been seen as a ray of light, there has been a recent drop in daily infections. The seven-day average of daily cases fell for the 10 consecutive days leading up to Saturday, something that has never happened since the outbreak began in India in March. During these 10 days, the seven-day average of daily new Covid-19 cases dropped by more than 8,900.
India has conducted more than 70 million tests for Covid-19 so far, and the country’s testing capacity has exceeded 1.4 million tests daily.
(With input from Reuters)
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