Washington: The global death toll from Covid-19 exceeded 4 million Wednesday because the crisis was increasingly becoming a race between vaccines and a very contagious Delta variant.
Calculate the lives lost for the past one and a half years, as compiled from official sources by Johns Hopkins University, the same as the number of people killed in battle in all World War since 1982, according to estimates of peace research.
Oslo Institute.
The toll is three times the number of people killed in traffic accidents around the world every year.
This is the same as the Los Angeles population or Georgian country.
This is equivalent to more than half of Hong Kong or nearly 50% of New York City.
Even then, it is widely believed to be an undercount because the cases are ignored or intentional concealment.
With the advent of vaccines, death per day has dropped to around 7,900, after being filled with more than 18,000 a day in January.
But in recent weeks, the Delta Mutant version of the first virus identified in India has triggered alarms throughout the world, spread rapidly even in the success story of vaccination such as the US, UK and Israel.
England, in fact, recorded a total of one Sunday more than 30,000 new infections for the first time since January, even when the government prepares to lift all the remaining locking restrictions in the UK later this month.
Other countries have regulated preventive measures, and the authorities rushed to increase the campaign to issue a shot.
At the same time, the disaster has exposed the gap between chaos and does not have, with vaccination drives almost not started in Africa and other world corners that are very poor due to lack of shots.
The US and other rich countries have agreed to share at least 1 billion doses with struggling countries.
The US has the highest highest death toll in the world, at more than 600,000, or almost 1 in 7 deaths, followed by Brazil in more than 520,000, although real numbers are believed to be much higher in Brazil, where President Jair Bolsonaro, a distant government , It has long underestimated the virus.
Varids, uneven access to vaccines and relaxation of precautions in rich countries is “a very dangerous combination of toxic,” warned Ann Lindstrand, a top immunization official in the World Health Organization.
Instead of treating the crisis as a matter of “me-and-yu-and-my-country”, he said, “We need to be serious that this is a problem throughout the world who needs solutions throughout the world.”