The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 5 million on Monday, less than two years into a crisis that has not only devastated poor countries but also humbled wealthy ones with first-rate health care systems. Together, the United States, the European Union, Britain and Brazil—all upper-middle- or high-income countries—account for one-eighth of the world’s population […]
The global death toll from the coronavirus topped a staggering 3 million people Saturday amid repeated setbacks in the worldwide vaccination campaign and a deepening crisis in places such as Brazil, India and France. The number of lives lost, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the population of Kyiv, Ukraine; Caracas, […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – More than 200,000 Russians diagnosed with COVID-19 have died since the pandemic began last April, Russia’s Rosstat statistics agency said on Friday, more than double the widely cited figure used by the government’s coronavirus task force.FILE PHOTO: A medical specialist works at the Krylatskoye Ice Palace, which was converted into a temporary […]
Dr. Fauci: US will have 600M coronavirus vaccine doses by July 2021 White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci tells ‘Fox News Sunday’ Americans need to continue to ‘keep guard up’ and not be ‘complacent’ during the coronavirus pandemic. The U.S. exceeded a tragic milestone as the nation recorded over half a million lives lost […]
A fourth Guinean Ebola patient died on Monday, the health agency said, as the government and aid groups began to roll out their response to the outbreak. Guinea announced the outbreak on Saturday—the first in West Africa since a 2013-2016 epidemic that left more than 11,300 dead in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. There was […]
The coronavirus pandemic has now killed more than 10,000 residents in Belgian retirement homes, more than half of the national death toll, health officials said Friday. Belgium, a country of 11.5 million people, has counted 18,371 deaths from COVID-19 since the outbreak began, the highest per capita death rate in the world, according to an […]
Russia on Saturday registered record numbers for daily infections and deaths from the coronavirus, two days after having passed two million cases. Health officials reported 24,822 new infections and 476 deaths, bringing the national total to 2,064,748 million cases and 35,778 fatalities since the beginning of the year. While those figures suggest a lower death […]
Serbia announced a record coronavirus death toll for a single day on Friday, as the government hit back at protests over its handling of the pandemic. Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said the Balkan state recorded 18 fatalities and 386 new cases over 24 hours in what she described as a “dramatic increase.” At the same […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain India’s official coronavirus death toll leapt by more than 2,000 on Wednesday as the hard-hit country struggles to contain a ballooning health crisis that has overwhelmed hospitals. The news came as Germany urged its nationals in India to consider leaving for their own safety, while France warned its citizens in New […]
When Leonid Shlykov’s father, Sergei, died in a Moscow hospital last month after 11 days on a ventilator, the death certificate listed the coronavirus as an underlying condition but not the actual cause of death. “Yes, he was suffering from impaired kidney function and diabetes, but if it hadn’t been for COVID-19, he would’ve been […]
