The death count from COVID-19 worldwide has reached half a million people on Sunday, according to a Reuters tally.
While the overall rate of death has decreased in recent weeks, health experts have expressed concerns about record numbers of new cases in countries like the United States, India and Brazil, as well as new outbreaks in parts of Asia.
Around 4,700 people dies every 24 hours from COVID-19-linked disease, according to Reuters calculations based on an average from June 1 to 27.That means 196 people per hour, or one person succumbing to the illnesses every 18 seconds.
The COVID-19 death toll has overtaken the number of people who die annually from malaria, one of the most deadly infectious diseases, in a span of just 5 months.
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 data from the World Health Organization.
