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More than 4,996,000 people have

died from the coronavirus worldwide

More than 246 million cases have been reported.

The coronavirus is on the cusp of having killed at
least 5 million people since it first emerged in Wuhan,
China, in late 2019, according to data compiled by
Johns Hopkins University.

Nearly a quarter billion cases of the coronavirus
have been reported. Despite the rollout of vaccines,
global health experts warn that the pandemic is set

to continue.
“With almost 50,000 deaths a week, the pandemic is
far from over — and that’s just the reported deaths,”
World Health Organization Director General Tedros
Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at the World Health

Summit in Berlin on Oct. 24.

The United States continues to have the highest
cumulative number of confirmed cases and deaths
globally. In early October, the U.S. death toll from

covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, surpassed
700,000, despite the widespread availability of
vaccines in the country. GRAFICS,RUTER/EFE AGENCYS

Behind the United States, Brazil, India, Mexico and In India, as in Britain and Brazil before it, the spread

Russia have the largest cumulative numbers of cases. of the virus was blamed on fast-spreading variants
India’s record-setting surge in spring 2021 meant rampant in the country, including the delta variant
that the country accounted then for about 1 in 3 of all that was first identified in India.

new confirmed cases. The spike, which was blamed
on complacency and the lifting of restrictions, Delta, also known as B.1.617.2, has become the
along with the spread of variants, saw the country’s dominant variant in many parts of the world.
health-care system overwhelmed amid widespread
oxygen shortages. Even after the surge in new cases The variant is more virulent than many others and

subsided in mid-May, India still set records for the studies have shown that vaccines do not provide
number of new daily deaths, with more than 4,500 the same levels of protection against it, though they
deaths from covid-19 reported in a single 24-hour do still significantly reduce the likelihood of serious

period. illness.

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