The novel coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 800,000 people worldwide since its discovery in China in December, according to a count made by AFP from official sources this Saturday at 11 a.m. GMT. In total, 800,004 deaths have been recorded worldwide out of 23,003,079 reported cases. More than half of global Covid-19 deaths have been recorded in four countries: the United States (175,416), Brazil (113,358), Mexico (59,610) and India (55,794).
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The number of deaths due to Covid-19 has doubled since June 6 and more than 100,000 new deaths have been recorded in 17 days since August 5. 147 days had elapsed between the announcement of the first official death in China and the census of 400,000 deaths worldwide and 77 more days to exceed the mark of 800,000 registered deaths.
Latin America and the Caribbean, the most affected region in the world in terms of number of deaths (254,897) and cases (6,575,960), recorded 17,095 new deaths from Covid-19 in the past seven days, down slightly from the previous week. Follow Asia (8,501), Canada and the United States (6,964), Europe (2,550), Africa (2,227), the Middle East (2,188) and Oceania (99).
Sad record in Belgium
In total, behind Latin America, Europe had 212,533 deaths for 3,681,448 cases, ahead of Canada and the United States (184,516, 5,749,093), Asia (86,288, 4,410,622) and the Middle - East (33.930,1.389.619). Africa, with 27,319 deaths out of 1,169,204 officially declared cases, remains the least affected continent after Oceania (521, 27,133).
The United States is the country with the most new deaths in the last week (6,927), ahead of Brazil (6,835), India (6,809), Mexico (3,702) and Colombia (2,076). The pace of the increase in the number of deaths over this period has, however, decreased for Mexico (-19%), Colombia (-7%) the United States (-5%) and Brazil (-2%). It increased in India, with + 5%.
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Among the hardest hit countries, Belgium is the one that deplores the highest number of deaths in relation to its population, with 86 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Peru (83), Spain (62), the Kingdom United (61) and Italy (59).