Global daily Covid deaths at LOWEST point since pandemic began –

Globally, daily Covid deaths have fallen to their lowest point since the start of the pandemic, in what experts describe as “something to celebrate”.

The seven-day average death toll on Sunday was 2,813, the lowest since March 28, 2020 (2,735), according to global research platform Our World in Data.

In January 2021, the average daily death toll reached 14,500 during the darkest phase of the crisis, and 10,900 in February at the peak of the Omicron wave.

Leading scientists argue that behind the declining mortality rate is the cumulative effect of recurrent waves of the virus, high vaccination rates and milder strains currently in circulation.

Hong Kong currently has one of the worst death rates in the world, as the former Zero Covid state is battling the ultra-contagious Omicron and relies on cheap vaccines made in China. In the week until Sunday, there were 7 deaths per million people per day in the country. It was just behind Monaco (7.2).

The UK is currently 11th in Covid death toll (4.2) and the rankings have risen in recent weeks due to rapidly rising infection rates. USA ranked 46th (1.3).

Researchers also estimate that the worldwide death rate from Covid cases is currently 0.25%, meaning that one in 400 people who test positive will die from the virus. The figure has dropped from nearly two percent before Omicron emerged, marking the lowest percentage recorded since the start of the pandemic. While testing was limited in the early days of the pandemic, about one (7.3%) of those confirmed to be infected with the virus died.

Covid caused record infections earlier this year and devastated the world. On January 19 alone, Omicron peaked at 4.1 million cases per day worldwide. The figure is 4.7 times higher than when the global number of cases peaked at 870,840 in January 2021. The chart above shows the daily seven-day moving average number of cases.

In the first two years of the pandemic, about 6.2 million deaths from the virus have been confirmed worldwide. The USA (990,000) had the largest numbers, followed by Brazil (660,000), India (520,000) and Russia (365,000).

However, the data show that Peru has suffered the most in terms of population, with 6,374 deaths per million people since the start of the Covid crisis, followed by Bulgaria (5,334), Bosnia and Herzegovina (4,826) and Hungary (4,761).

Experts say the actual death rate from viruses will be much higher than reported figures, due to limited testing and difficulties in attributing the cause of death to the virus, because many deaths involve other underlying conditions.

And it’s hard to compare numbers between countries because some countries only count deaths in hospitals.

However, data from Oxford University’s platform Our World in Data shows that the daily death toll from Covid has decreased since February 10, when an average of 10,918 deaths from the virus were recorded.

Despite a brief increase to 1.8 million on March 18 due to Omicron, the number of cases also fell globally from a peak of 3.4 million in January. Test rates have also fallen in major countries.

Dr. Eric Topol, cardiologist and Covid commentator at the US research center Scripts Research, said the drop in the death rate is “something to celebrate”.

Despite the fact that Omicron was declared the dominant species worldwide by the World Health Organization in late March, the death toll is falling.

The virus caused a record number of infections and devastated the world in January. Data on Covid resurfaced earlier this month in the UK, where one in 13 people was infected.

And an Omicron epidemic recording nearly 25,000 positive scribbles a day in Shanghai’s economic hub, China, prompted local authorities to forcibly detain angry protesters who were forced to stay indoors for weeks.

Researchers also estimate that the worldwide death rate from Covid cases is currently 0.25%, meaning that one in 400 people who test positive will die from the virus.

The figure has dropped from nearly two percent before Omicron emerged, marking the lowest percentage recorded since the start of the pandemic.

While testing was limited in the early days of the pandemic, about one (7.3%) of those confirmed to be infected with the virus died.

But the actual death rate, known as the death rate from infections, is even lower, with UK data showing that the virus is no longer any more deadly than seasonal flu.

Experts say Covid is now less deadly due to rapidly increasing immunity rates from past infections and vaccines, with two-thirds of the world’s 7.8 billion people believed to have had at least one injection. Worldwide, 109 million infections have been confirmed, although the actual number is significantly higher.

While the death toll worldwide has shown a downward trend, it has increased in the UK in recent weeks.

The UK government records deaths as all deaths that occur within 28 days of a positive test.

Critics say the skyrocketing prevalence data skews the toll, with the death toll “with” the virus rising since Omicron took off.

The same trend can be observed in hospitals, where up to half of patients occasionally have the virus and do not require any treatment for it.