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For the Netherlands, based on overall excess mortality, an estimated 20,000 people died from COVID-19 in 2020, [9] while only the death of 11,525 identified COVID-19 cases was registered. [8] The official count of COVID-19 deaths as of December 2021 is slightly more than 5.4 million, according to World Health Organization's report in May 2022.
The global COVID-19 pandemicarrived in Europewith its first confirmed case in Bordeaux, France, on 24 January 2020, and subsequently spread widely across the continent. By 17 March 2020, every country in Europe had confirmed a case,[62]and all have reported at least one death, with the exception of Vatican City.
As of January 2023, taking into account likely COVID induced deaths via excess deaths, the 95% confidence interval suggests the pandemic to have caused between 16 and 28.2 million deaths. [5] [6] For the latest daily updates of cases, deaths, and death rates see COVID-19 pandemic death rates by country.
COVID-19 is the deadliest pandemic in US history; [358] it was the third-leading cause of death in the US in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer. [359] From 2019 to 2020, US life expectancy dropped by 3 years for Hispanic Americans, 2.9 years for African Americans, and 1.2 years for white Americans. [360]
As of 8 May 2024, France is the most affected country in Europe, while Germany is the second most affected country and the United Kingdom the third most affected country. On 4 March 2022, South Korea joined the list of 20 most affected countries, incl. eight in Europe, such as France, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Egypt. On average, COVID-19 deaths made up under 10% of the excess deaths between May and August 2020. [14] The estimates of undercounting in Egypt by Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) was in the ratio of 1 to 12. [31] [32] Between the start of the pandemic and May 2021, Egypt registered nearly 200,000 excess deaths, compared ...
COVID-19 pandemic by location [1] ^ Countries which do not report data for a column are not included in that column's world total. ^ Data on member states of the European Union are individually listed, but are also summed here for convenience. They are not double-counted in world totals. ^ Does not include special administrative regions ( Hong ...
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2) is a strain of coronavirus that causes COVID-19, the respiratory illness responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The virus previously had the provisional name 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), and has also been called human coronavirus 2019 (HCoV-19 or hCoV-19).