A symbolical threshold has been reached this Monday November 1, 2021: 5 million Covid deaths worldwide, two years after the virus has been discovered in China, in December 2019. The AFP has reported the counting, based on official reports from the different national health authorities.
And yet, the World Health Organization thinks the toll is much heavier, two to three times more dead in the world. As a matter of fact, the health authorities only report the dead officially reported, without counting the deaths not directly linked to coronavirus.
But the health situation is far from being over and although data sound good on a world basis, with a daily death toll that moved under the threshold of 8000 for the first time in a year, some countries see their situations worsen for the past weeks, such as Russia, Ukraine, and Romania.
"The total number of cases and deaths of Covid-19 is increasing for the first time in two months, due to the current increase in the epidemic in Europe," World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference.
