LONDON: Global COVID-19 deaths reached 250,000 on Monday (May 4) after recorded infections topped 3.5 million, a Reuters tally of official ...
, a Reuters tally of official government data showed, although the rate of fatalities has slowed.
That easily exceeds the estimated 140,000 deaths worldwide in 2018 caused by measles, and compares with around 3 million to 5 million cases of severe illness caused annually by seasonal influenza, according to the World Health Organization .While the current trajectory of COVID-19 falls far short of the 1918 Spanish flu, which infected an estimated 500 million people, killing at least 10per cent of patients, experts worry the available data is underplaying the true impact of the pandemic.
The first death linked to COVID-19 was reported on Jan. 10 in Wuhan, China, after the coronavirus first emerged there in December. Global fatalities grew at a rate of 1-2per cent in recent days, down from 14per cent on March 21, according to the Reuters data.Collignon said any country with a mortality rate of more than 2per cent almost certainly had underreported case numbers. Health experts fear those ratios could worsen in regions and countries less prepared to deal with the health crisis.
In Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who battled COVID-19 last month, has said the country was over the peak but it was still too early to relax lockdown measures.
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