ONLINE: Five million people worldwide have died of coronavirus

6:47 – C The total number of covid-19-related deaths has exceeded five million worldwide, according to Reuters calculations. . The increase in the number of deaths, especially among the unvaccinated, is caused by the Indian variant of the delta. More than half of the world’s population has not yet received a single dose of covid-19 vaccine, according to Our World in Data

It took almost a year for the number of deaths with covid to reach 2, 5 million, while another 2.5 million were recorded within 236 days. In the most affected United States on Friday, the death toll exceeded 700,000, according to world agencies and Johns Hopkins University (JHU). According to the AP, the number of deaths increased from 600,000 to 700,000 in three and a half months. According to average figures for the last seven days, the United States, Russia, Brazil, Mexico and India account for more than half of all deaths in the world. Worldwide, an average of about 8,000 deaths per day have been reported in the last week, representing five deaths every minute.

6:33 – In Germany , there were 8517 new cases of coronavirus infection on Friday, which is more than a week ago, when there were 7211. The number of cases per week per one hundred thousand inhabitants increased for the fourth time in a row, to 64.4. One week ago, the seven-day incidence was 60.6. The number of covid patients admitted to hospitals in the past seven days was 1.65 per 100,000 on Friday

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Germany has registered 4,246,136 proven SARS-CoV-2 infections. 93,777 infected died. The number of victims in the last 24 hours has increased by 66

6:24 – In Auckland, in New Zealand , 27 new cases of infection with the highly contagious coronavirus variant delta were added per day. About a thousand residents of the city took to the streets to protest the nearly two-month closure. Auckland’s 1.7 million people are awaiting Monday’s government decision to keep the city isolated from the rest of the country. The number of daily cases of infection in recent days has fluctuated between eight and 45. The Ministry of Health expects continued fluctuation at this level. Altogether, Auckland has registered 1,295 cases since the outbreak

New Zealand is pursuing a very tough approach to coronavirus. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared a “short and strict” lockdown across the country in mid-August due to a new outbreak. However, while the rest of the country has largely returned to normal life, the city on the North Island has been closed for about seven weeks.