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Coronavirus Live Updates: Fatality Rate of Covid-19 Is Higher
Than the Flu
Source: New York Times
The head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday that the
global mortality rate for Covid-19, the disease caused by the new
coronavirus, was 3.4 percent.
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the organization’s director general,
said in a news conference in Geneva that Covid-19 was deadlier than the seasonal flu, but did not transmit as easily. “Globally, about 3.4
percent of reported Covid-19 cases have died,” Dr. Tedros said. “By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1 percent of
those infected.”
The estimate takes into account the growing number of infections being
recorded outside China, mostly in Iran, Italy and South Korea. Dr.
Margaret Harris, a W.H.O. spokeswoman, said the figure was a “crudely calculated” snapshot of the disease’s death rate globally, and is
expected to “change over time, and vary from place to place.”
The announcement was the first time the organization confirmed a global mortality rate for the disease.
Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/world/coronavirus-news.html
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