More than 200 million cases of Covid-19 were registered worldwide since the virus emerged in China in December 2019, according to a tally by AFP.
The number of infections is on a sharp rise due to the spread of the highly infectious Delta variant, but the data shows that the number of new deaths is increasing at a slower rate.
The gap between the number of infections and deaths is most apparent in hard-hit countries.
Daily recorded cases in the US and the UK have exploded but the rate of new deaths remains much slower. In contrast, Indonesia’s daily recorded cases dropped by 19% over the past week, but the country is still recording by far the most daily deaths worldwide.
This reflects the inequality in access to vaccines as 58% Americans and 69% Britons received at least one shot, while only 18% of Indonesians were inoculated.
Covid-19 killed more than 4.25 million people worldwide since the start of the pandemic, but the World Health Organization estimates that the overall toll could be two to three times higher than official records
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