Coronavirus Death Toll Passes 100,000 Worldwide
KABUL (MEP) – The number of confirmed fatalities from the COVID-19 pandemic has passed 100,000, with the number of reported cases at over 1.6 million at the time of writing.
Data collected by Johns Hopkins University shows that the highest number of deaths from the disease have occurred in Italy where more than 18,800 have been recorded.
The next worst-hit country is the United States with more than 17,900 deaths. Third is Spain, which has seen more than 15,8900 fatalities, followed by France with just over 12,200 and the United Kingdom where more than 8,900 people have died.
In Italy and Spain, the rate of deaths is beginning to decrease. In the U.S. and U.K., however, the number of fatalities is increasing. In fact, the United States is projected to have nearly 37,500 deaths in four days from now—the highest number in the world—according to an FT analysis.
There have been over 3,200 deaths in Hubei province China where the outbreak started, accounting for the vast majority of the country’s fatalities. This week, the strict lockdown imposed on January 23 on the city of Wuhan—thought to be the origin of the disease—finally ended after China reported no new deaths from COVID-19 on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Iran reports 68,192 COVID-19 cases and more than 4232 deaths so far.
The report comes as the Afghanistan coronavirus cases have risen to 523 and the number of deaths from the disease have reached more than 15, most of which in Herat and Kabul.
