US Johns Hopkins University announced that the Coronavirus has infected 1,6 million people across the world since the outbreak of the pandemic in China last December.
The university published a recent statistics revealed that the deadly virus claimed lives of 95 thousand persons in various parts of the globe.
The United States of America ( USA), Italy, Spain, Iran and China top the countries with infected people and deaths in course of the three last months.
On the other hand, the number of people who recovered from the disease in the world reached 355 thousand persons.
Yesterday marks the 100th day after the World Health Organization ( WHO) declared the first case of irregular pneumonia in Wuhan, the urban center of Hubei province in the middle of China. The organization renamed the novel Coronavirus on March 10 as COVID-19.
Limited testing and challenges in the attribution of the cause of death means that the number of confirmed deaths may not be an accurate count of the true total number of deaths from COVID-19.
The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) publishes daily updates of confirmed deaths due to COVID-19. We rely on this data as explained above.
ECDC asserted that in an ongoing outbreak the final outcomes death or recovery for all cases is not yet known. The time from symptom onset to death ranges from 2 to 8 weeks for COVID-19. This means that some people who are currently infected with COVID-19 will die at a later date. This needs to be kept in mind when comparing the current number of deaths with the current number of cases.
"To understand the risks and respond appropriately we would also want to know the mortality risk of COVID-19 the likelihood that someone who catches the disease will die from it."
ECDC said that in an outbreak of an infectious disease it is important to not only study the number of deaths, but also the growth rate at which the number of deaths is increasing. This is because even if the current numbers of deaths are small when compared with other diseases, a fast growth rate can lead to very large numbers rapidly.
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