Statistics related to the global outbreak of the coronavirus conducted by the French news agency show that the world has recorded three million deaths from the virus as of Saturday morning. The number of deaths has risen again in April compared to the slowdown in March, reaching up to 12,000 deaths daily. According to a tally by the French news agency based on data from national health authorities worldwide as of 08:30 UTC Saturday, more than three million deaths from the coronavirus have been officially recorded since its emergence in China in December 2019.
After a slight slowdown in March, the daily death toll has risen again globally, with an average of over 12,000 deaths per day recorded last week, approaching the average of 14,500 daily deaths recorded at the end of January, during the peak of the pandemic. The World Health Organization considered on Monday that the pandemic is at a "critical point" among countries like Israel, which has managed to curb the outbreak thanks to extensive vaccination campaigns, and others like India, which is facing a sharp new increase in cases and deaths.
Currently, Britain is no longer the most affected country by the pandemic in Europe (127,225 deaths), recording about thirty deaths daily, down from a peak of over 1,200 deaths per day in late January. Beginning in early December, Britain, which emerged from a lockdown lasting more than three months on Monday, launched an intensive vaccination campaign that has managed to administer at least one dose to 60% of the adult population.
Similarly, the pandemic has declined since January in the United States, the most affected country in the world with 566,224 deaths, despite a recent spike in numbers in some states. The benefits of vaccination are evident in Israel, where six out of ten individuals have received at least one dose. The country now records only 6 or 7 deaths daily, a figure that is ten times less than that recorded in late January at the pandemic's peak.
In contrast, many countries are struggling to halt the spread of the pandemic. WHO technical officer Maria Van Kerkhove warned on Tuesday that the virus is "spreading rapidly." In Brazil, the second most affected country in the world with 368,749 deaths, there are nearly three thousand deaths reported daily, accounting for about a quarter of the daily reported deaths globally. This number has significantly increased since mid-February, and the country has been recording the highest daily death toll in the world since March 7.
The rise in the number of deaths is also rapid in India, which has a population of 1.3 billion, recording over a thousand daily deaths—nine times more than the figures from early March, alongside a similar rise in cases (over 188,000 per day compared to 15,000 at the beginning of March). More than 139 million infections have been reported globally since the outbreak began, with around 730,000 cases currently being reported daily, a figure that has been steadily increasing since late February.
