Global coronavirus death toll hits 100,000, cases over 1.6 million

[rooster59]

Global coronavirus death toll hits 100,000, cases over 1.6 million

By Cate Cadell

 

FILE PHOTO: Healthcare workers transfer the body of a deceased person onto a stretcher at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, April 8. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

 

(Reuters) - The number of deaths linked to the novel coronavirus reached 100,000 on Friday, as the tally of cases passed 1.6 million, according to a Reuters tally.

 

The first death came in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Jan. 9. It took 83 days for the first 50,000 deaths to be recorded and just eight more for the toll to climb to 100,000.

 

The toll has been accelerating at a daily rate of between 6% and 10% over the past week, and there were almost 7,300 deaths globally reported on Thursday.

 

The death toll now compares with that of London's Great Plague in the mid-1660s, which killed an estimated 100,000 people, about a third of the city’s population at the time.

 

But it is still far short of the so-called Spanish flu, which began in 1918 and is estimated to have killed more than 20 million people by the time it petered out in 1920.

 

The novel coronavirus is believed to have emerged in a Wuhan market where wild animals were sold late last year. It quickly spread through China and around the world.

 

Much remains to be determined about it, including just how lethal it is. Estimates vary widely.

 

Friday's figures - 100,000 deaths of out 1.6 million cases - would suggest a fatality rate of 6.25% but many experts believe the actual rate is lower given that many mild and asymptomatic cases, when infected people don't show symptoms, are not included in case totals.

 

Some countries, including Italy, France, Algeria, the Netherlands, Spain and Britain are reporting that more than 10% of all confirmed cases have been fatal.

 

One of the largest studies of the fatality of the disease, involving 44,000 patients in China, put the rate at about 2.9%.

 

The same study reported that 93% of recorded fatalities were people over the age of 50, and more than half were over 70.

 

Despite that, there are growing numbers of young adults and teenagers included in the global toll.

 

While North America now accounts for more than 30% of cases, Europe has reported a disproportionate number of fatalities, as countries with older populations like Spain and Italy have been severely affected.

 

Southern Europe alone accounts for more than a third of global deaths, despite recording just 20% of cases.

In many countries, official data includes only deaths reported in hospitals, not those in homes or nursing homes.

 

Interactive graphic tracking global spread of coronavirus: open https://tmsnrt.rs/3aIRuz7 in an external browser

 

(Reporting by Cate Cadell; Editing by Robert Birsel and Lisa Shumaker)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-04-11

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[ChipButty]

How does it compare to deaths at this time of the year with pneumonia TB Dengue fever and normal flu?

[ezzra]

Despite all the grim figures i envision several countries will be forced to lossen up many restrictions in order to restart the economy even at a cost of many more getting sick and dying and as bad as this pandemic is a collupssed econony is the real nightmrae no nation want to even conemplate having to deal with...

[kevin612]

This is what happen when China is hiding the real figures and boom, global financial crisis and viruses.

[Traubert]

7 minutes ago, kevin612 said:

This is what happen when China is hiding the real figures and boom, global financial crisis and viruses.

Yeah......yeah!

[Phuketshrew]

51 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

The first death came in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Jan. 9.

That may have been the first death that the Chinese admitted to and was recorded but certainly not the first.

[Siamjim]

CDC USA 60,000 died yearly from the common flu and W.H.O. world wide 2-3 million seriously ill from it... stop pushing the scare

[Dap]

6 hours ago, ChipButty said:

How does it compare to deaths at this time of the year with pneumonia TB Dengue fever and normal flu?

Google is your friend 

[Krataiboy]

A long way to go yet before the current pandemic proves as deadly as common influenza, which globally culls between 290,000 to 650,000 people a year, according to the WHO. 

 

COVID 19 has currently racked up a relatively modest 100,000 deaths, some 80 percent of which are among the elderly and individuals with pre-existing serious medical problems. The vast majority of infected people have only minor symptoms or none at all.

 

So why, one feels bound to ask, are we giving up so much - i.e. trashing the global economy, human rights and a lot more besides - to combat this particular "killer" virus?

 

Am I alone in suspecting a hidden agenda at play? 

 

 

[Redline]

16 hours ago, kevin612 said:

This is what happen when China is hiding the real figures and boom, global financial crisis and viruses.

http://credibletarget.net/notes/RZQ
 

this guy is missing-critical of the government, and well known by powerful people government-his history is interesting 

[simple1]

19 hours ago, ChipButty said:

How does it compare to deaths at this time of the year with pneumonia TB Dengue fever and normal flu?

Covid-19 is still in early days and yet to fully manifest worldwide in high risk countries so at the moment no-one can answer the question. As an indicator In high risk countries Malaria, as no vaccine available,  currently kills two million p.a.. Hopefully the WHO recommendations from their 28 February report will be fully implemented as appropriate to manage the spread until a verified vaccine becomes available

[overherebc]

23 hours ago, ChipButty said:

How does it compare to deaths at this time of the year with pneumonia TB Dengue fever and normal flu?

Just adds more deaths that may/could have been avoided.

Or you could look at it a different way and say died from Dengue etc and also had Covid19. Died from blood poisoning from an infected ingrowing toenail, but also had Covid19. Or had a coughing fit while driving, lost control and went off a bridge, drowned, but, had Covid19.

People will talking %'s on this for years.

 

[nobodysfriend]

4 hours ago, simple1 said:

Covid-19 is still in early days and yet to fully manifest worldwide in high risk countries so at the moment no-one can answer the question. As an indicator In high risk countries Malaria, as no vaccine available,  currently kills two million p.a.. Hopefully the WHO recommendations from their 28 February report will be fully implemented as appropriate to manage the spread until a verified vaccine becomes available

A Vaccine ( if ever there will be one , for SARS it was never found ) , will come too late ...

This is worrying too : https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-is-investigating-reports-of-recovered-covid-patients-testing-positive-again-idUSKCN21T0F1

 

South Korean officials on Friday reported 91 patients thought cleared of the new coronavirus had tested positive again. Jeong Eun-kyeong, director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told a briefing that the virus may have been “reactivated” rather than the patients being re-infected.

[mauGR1]

14 hours ago, Krataiboy said:

Am I alone in suspecting a hidden agenda at play? 

 

With all the media in the world singing the same song, one certainly has the right to be surprised.

[3NUMBAS]

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