About one-quarter of all the deaths so far have been in the United States, the Reuters data shows. The death rate averages out to 78,000 per month, compared with 64,000 AIDS-related deaths and 36,000 malaria deaths, according to 2018 figures from the World Health Organization. In Iraq, former militiamen have dropped their guns to instead dig graves for coronavirus victims at a specially created cemetery. ELDERLY AT RISKPublic health experts are looking at how demographics affect the death rates in different regions. Health experts caution that the official data likely does not tell the full story, with many believing that both cases and deaths have likely been underreported in some countries.

Source: bd News24 June 28, 2020 21:56 UTC