New COVID model predicts over a million deaths in China through 2023
Chicago, US Reuters China’s abrupt lifting of stringent COVID-19 restrictions could result in an explosion of cases and over a million deaths through 2023, according to new projections from the US-based Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation. According to the group’s projections, cases in China would peak around 1st April, when deaths would reach 322,000. […]
As Brazil passes 600,000 COVID-19 deaths, vaccines offer hope worst is over
Rio de Janeiro, BrazilReuters Brazil became the second country in the world to pass 600,000 COVID-19 deaths on Friday, a dark milestone for a government that has been sharply criticised for mismanaging the outbreak. President Jair Bolsonaro has drawn the ire of health experts for his failure to implement measures to contain the pandemic. He […]
Postcards: As India’s COVID-19 deaths rise, grief goes online
ANURADHA NAGARAJ, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how, with funeral access restricted in India, the bereaved are going online to mourn…
Lifestory: Married 66 years, US Christian couple die minutes apart of virus
TERRY SPENCER, of Associated Press, tells the story of Bill and Esther Ilnisky who in early March joined the hundreds of thousands of people who have died of the coronavirus in the US…