With 566,224 deaths, the United States has the highest number of deaths, followed by Brazil with 368,749 and Mexico with 211,693.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday that the pandemic was at a “critical point” and warned that the world needed a reality check. After a brief decline in March, the number of deaths worldwide is rising again, with an average of about 12,000 deaths, approaching 14,500 daily deaths (7-day daily average) at the end of January.
Countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom have seen the number of new daily deaths decline since the end of January due to vaccination campaigns, while India and Brazil are facing unprecedented increases in infections.
In Brazil, about 3,000 deaths are reported every day, accounting for almost a quarter of the daily reported deaths worldwide. The country has been the worst hit in the world in terms of new daily deaths globally since early March.
The pandemic shows no signs of slowing down, as the 7-day average is approaching historic highs in January – more than 730,000 new daily cases are reported this week.
With 234,692 new infections reported on Saturday, India has nearly three times the US daily.
India also reported 1,341 new deaths on Saturday, the highest number of deaths in a single day, excluding June 17.
According to JHU, there are 140 million global cases of Covid-19.