World Achieves 5 Million Deaths By Covid

This Monday (1st) the world reached the mark of 5 million deaths confirmed by Covid-19, a disease that continues to make victims almost two years after the first case was registered in Wuhan, China. The count is from Johns Hopkins University.

The number of registered coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic exceeds 246 million. Due to underreporting of infections and deaths, the actual number of victims of the disease may be even higher.​

Brazil is the second country with more deaths from coronaviruses — there are more than 607,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins. This Sunday, the country registered 1.6 million doses of vaccines applied against Covid.

Altogether, more than 154 million people received at least the first dose of the immunizing agent, and 112 million, the second. Added to the single doses of the Janssen vaccine against Covid, there are 117 million people with a complete vaccination schedule in the country.

The United States leads the ranking of countries with the highest number of deaths. Altogether, the country registered more than 745,000 deaths.

After Brazil, in second place, occupy the list of the ten nations with the most deaths caused by Covid-19, in absolute numbers, India, Mexico, Russia, Peru, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Italy and Colombia.

The advance of vaccination against Covid has slowed down the mortality caused by the disease in the world in recent months, but the unequal distribution of immunization agents and the action of anti-vaccination movements have hampered efforts to fight the pandemic in several countries.

According to the Our World in Data platform, more than 7 billion doses have been administered worldwide, and 49.3% of the world population has already received at least one injection. In low-income countries, only 3.5% of people received at least one dose, indicating a wide disparity in access to the vaccine.

Covid’s crisis and the prevention of future pandemics were the themes of the meeting of the G20, a group of the 19 main economies in the world plus the European Union, held in Rome this weekend. President Jair Bolsonaro (no party) represented Brazil at the summit.

Last week, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Ethiopian Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, made an appeal for group members to share immunizations with poorer nations. “G20 countries must meet sharing commitments immediately.”

After the meetings in Rome ended, leaders of the bloc said they would increase the supply of vaccines to less developed countries, promising to “avoid restrictions on exports and increase transparency and visibility in delivery”. Concrete deadlines, however, were not specified.

The G20 stated that it will contribute to achieving the global vaccination goals for at least 40% of the population of all countries by the end of 2021 and 70% by mid-2022, as recommended by the WHO.