With 566,224 dead, the US has the highest number of fatalities, followed by Brazil with 368,749 and Mexico with 211,693.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday that the pandemic was at a “critical point” and warned that the world needed a reality check. After a brief decline in March, the number of deaths worldwide is on the rise again, averaging about 12,000 deaths, approaching the daily death toll of 14,500 (7-day moving average) at the end of January.
Countries such as the US and UK have seen their number of new daily deaths drop since the end of January due to vaccination campaigns, while India and Brazil are experiencing unprecedented spikes in infections.
In Brazil, some 3,000 deaths are reported every day, accounting for nearly a quarter of the world’s reported deaths every day. The country has been hardest hit globally in terms of new daily deaths since the beginning of March.
The pandemic is showing no signs of slowing down as the 7-day moving average nears its all-time high in January – more than 730,000 daily new cases are reported this week.
With 234,692 new infections reported on Saturday, India has nearly three times as many cases per day as the US.
India also reported 1,341 new deaths on Saturday, the highest one-day death toll apart from June 17. On that day, June 17, a total of 2,003 deaths in one day were recorded as a result of administrative errors leading to a backlog.
According to JHU, there are 140 million cases of Covid-19 worldwide.