New Delhi, 1/11: The number of people who lost their lives due to Coronavirus crossed 50 lakhs on Monday. The COVID-19 pandemic has killed such a large number of people in less than two years, and the infectious disease has not only affected poor countries, but has also wreaked havoc in prosperous nations where There is a good system of health care. America, the European Union, Britain and Brazil are upper middle class, high-income countries and they account for one-eighth of the world’s population but half of the deaths from Covid are in these countries. have happened. More than 740,000 have been known in America.
The death toll has been compiled by John Hopkins University. According to the ‘Peace Research Institute Oslo’, about the same number of people have died in the war since 1950 as have died from this epidemic. COVID-19 is the third leading cause of death worldwide after heart attack and stroke. This figure of the dead is certainly counted low as a limited number of people have been tested and people have died at home without treatment, especially in less developed parts of the world like India. The virus is now spreading to Russia, Ukraine and other parts of Eastern Europe, where rumors and lack of trust in the government have affected vaccination. In Ukraine, only 17 percent of the adult population has been fully vaccinated, while in Armenia the number is seven percent.