0
0
by Hector Pascua
For more than a year, the corona pandemic has determined everyday life worldwide. And again the number of new corona infections is rising. Globally, approximately 250.7 million corona infections and more than 5.06 million corona virus deaths have been reported (as of Nov. 10, 2021).
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called the five million mark a “painful new threshold.” It would be a mistake to think the pandemic is over, he said. In Africa, he said, only five percent of the population is fully vaccinated.
Nowhere have there been more corona infections and deaths with coronavirus than in the United States. There, approximately 46.79 million infections and more than 758,916 deaths associated with coronavirus have been reported since the start of the pandemic (as of November 11, 2021).
Hundreds of Coronatote in Romania – daily.
Covid-19 has hit countries unevenly. Most deaths have occurred in the United States, Brazil, India, Mexico and Russia.
While researchers were working on the development of Corona vaccines, the Corona situation came to a head again in the fall of 2020. This was due in part to the mutation of the coronavirus.
In December, however, it was also clear that the first parts of the population would be able to be vaccinated against the coronavirus from the end of December. The vaccines of the companies Biontech/Pfizer as well as AstraZeneca and later also Moderna and Johnson & Johnson were approved by the EMA.
As the vaccine was in short supply at the beginning, the vaccination campaign in Austria and other EU countries was initially slow. In the course of the second quarter of 2021, more vaccine was then supplied steadily so that all citizens could still be offered vaccination in the summer of 2021.
Experts believe the widespread infection and death toll is high. According to an estimate by The Economist magazine, Covid-19 is believed to have caused about 17 million deaths.
By comparison, the death toll from the “Spanish flu” at the beginning of the last century – which can only be estimated today – was between 20 and 100 million deaths.
100 years of Spanish flu
Study on the Spanish flu in 1918: “History repeats itself”.
The Spanish flu spread across the world in three waves, locally and temporally staggered, between 1918 and 1920.
- sources: news agencies/de.euronews.com/picture:pixabay.com
This post has already been read 457 times!
