REUTERS: The number of deaths worldwide linked to the novel coronavirus reached 150,000 on Friday (Apr 17), according to a Reuters tally. The ...
FILE PHOTO: Mortuary employees transport the body of a person in an elderly residence following the coronavirus disease outbreak in Brussels, Belgium April 14, 2020. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File PhotoREUTERS: The number of deaths worldwide linked to the novel coronavirus reached 150,000 on Friday , according to a Reuters tally.
The first death came in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Jan 9. It took 83 days for the first 50,000 deaths to be recorded and just eight more for the toll to climb to 100,000. It took another eight days to go from 100,000 to 150,000.The death toll is still far short of the so-called Spanish flu, which began in 1918 and is estimated to have killed more than 20 million people by the time it petered out in 1920.
The novel coronavirus is believed to have emerged in a Wuhan market where wild animals were sold before quickly spreading around the world. Much remains to be determined about it, scientists say, including just how lethal it is.has the highest single death toll, with the number of fatalities crossing 34,500 on Friday. It also has the most confirmed cases of COVID-19, with more than 680,000 detected infections.
The infections and fatalities are spread unevenly across the country, with more densely populated places such as New York accounting for nearly half the total US deaths.Sweeping stay-at-home orders in 42 states to combat the new coronavirus have shuttered businesses, disrupted lives and decimated the economy, and some protesters have begun taking to the streets to urge governors to rethink the restrictions.
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