As Corona 19 spreads rapidly due to the sudden relaxation of quarantine in China, it seems that there are more deaths than in the US pandemic two years ago.
According to Newsweek, an American current affairs weekly magazine, Airfinity, a British health data analysis company, estimated in a report updated on the same day that the current number of corona infections in China is 2.42 million a day and the number of deaths is 15,850.
Since the 1st of last month, the cumulative death toll from Corona 19 was estimated at 192,400.
Newsweek analyzed that these figures would exceed records in January 2021, the worst time of the Corona 19 epidemic in the United States.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 23,387 people died during the week when the number of deaths was at its peak in the United States at the time.
That's an average of 3,341 deaths per day.
China's population is 1.41 billion, which is about 4.25 times that of the United States (330 million), and the current estimated number of deaths from COVID-19 in China is 4.74 times higher than the US figure two years ago, Newsweek compared. I did.
Airfinity also predicted that the epidemic in China would peak on the 13th of this month, with the number of infected people per day reaching 3.7 million.
The death toll could peak in about 10 days and rise to 25,000 a day, Airfinity estimates.
This is 7.48 times the maximum number of deaths per day during the US pandemic.
Airfinity also predicted that the number of infections per day would reach 4.2 million at the second peak on March 3, and the cumulative death toll from last month to April would reach 1.7 million.
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