The world recorded a new record for the number of deaths attributed to Covid-19 on Tuesday, more than a year after its appearance in China at the end of 2019: 18,000 deaths in a single day.
But this peak is not surprising: the pandemic during the month of January 2021 was particularly brutal, with more than 350,000 deaths to be deplored around the world.
Of all the people who have died from Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic, nearly one in six has died in January 2021.
The most affected country, by far, the United States.
In January alone, more than 80,000 Americans lost their lives.
Three countries mourn more than 25,000 Covid-19 patients: this is the case of the United Kingdom, Mexico and Brazil.
Europe, too, at the heart of the storm
And yet, it is on the side of Europe that the epidemic is killing the most, if we compare the number of deaths to the number of inhabitants: 9 of the 10 countries most affected in January in Europe are: Lithuania, Portugal, United Kingdom and Slovakia in the lead, with more than 400 deaths per million inhabitants.
France, for its part, has 150, which remains three times more than the world average.
Since December 2019, the virus has spread from the Wuhan region in China across the globe.
In total, more than 2 million people have lost their lives due to this new coronavirus, nearly half of which is concentrated between the United States, India, Brazil and Mexico.
Vaccines and collective immunity: the hope of a reversal of the curve
With the arrival of vaccines, the hope of collective immunity begins to appear in some countries.
The American President Joe Biden, recently installed in the White House, sees it in the summer in the country of Uncle Sam. The rest of the world is not yet so optimistic.
If we fear the lack of doses on the French side, many experts also draw attention to the importance of providing enough vaccines quickly to the poorest countries, which would otherwise risk becoming the future epicenters of the country. the pandemic.