Yes, the Coronavirus Pandemic has taken over 200,000 lives. The global death toll now is now 200,400. Europe accounts for almost 60% of these deaths, followed by North America at over 28%.
Amongst individual countries, USA has the most number of deaths (over 52,200), followed by Italy (over 25,900), Spain (over 22,900), France (over 22,200), and UK (over 20,300). No other country has reached a death count of 7,000.
It took 8 days (April 2 — April 10) to reach from 50,000 to 100,000 deaths, 7 days (April 10 — April 17) from 100,000 to 150,000 deaths, and it has taken 8 days again (April 17 — April 25) from 150,000 to 200,000 deaths. That may be good, but only if reporting by all countries was consistent at the same time every day. Let’s see how long it takes from 200,000 to 250,000, and from 250,000 to 300,000 deaths, to come to any real conclusion whether the rate of people dying is really coming down.
The H1N1 SWINE FLU, which originated in Mexico, infected 700 million to 1.4 billion people across the globe in 2009-10 (10.2 to 20.4% of the then world population), though the number of confirmed cases were only 1,632,710. The Swine Flu pandemic is estimated to have killed between 180,000 and 575,000 people, though the number of lab-confirmed deaths reported to the WHO was just 18,449. The number of COVID-19 confirmed cases is already 75.4% higher that of the Swine Flu, and it certainly looks like COVID-19 will take more lives than the Swine Flu.
India 16th Nation with 25,000+ cases, 19th with 750+ deaths
Today’s Daily Update on Global Daily and Weekly Growth of COVID-19
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LATEST UPDATES (at 2:45 pm UTC):
- The world has crossed 2.867 million cases
- The global death toll is over 200,000
- India has 26,153 cases and 823 deaths as per covid19india.org
- 6 countries have crossed 125,000 cases (up from 1 on April 3)
- 9 countries have crossed 75,000 cases (up from 4 on April 3)
- 16 countries have crossed 25,000 cases (up from 11 on April 3)
- 24 countries have crossed 15,000 cases (up from 16 on April 16)
- 32 countries have crossed 10,000 cases (up from 23 on April 16)
- 39 countries have crossed 7,500 cases (up from 26 on April 16)
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46 countries have crossed 5,000 cases (up from 20 on April 16)
- UK became the 5th country to cross 20,000 deaths
- 5 countries have 20,000+ deaths (up from just 1 on April 3)
- 8 countries have 5000+ deaths (up from 5 on April 3)
- 12 countries have 2500+ deaths (up from 7 on April 3)
- 17 countries have 1000+ deaths (up from 10 on April 3)
- 25 countries have 500+ deaths (up from 16 on April 16)