Global death toll from Covid-19 hits 6 million on Monday

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The official global Covid-19 death toll has reached six million as of Monday.
This comes just over two years since the pandemic first broke out, but experts believe the figure may be higher.
Kim Dami helps us look beyond the digits.

The global death toll from Covid-19 has hit the six million mark.
The figure, compiled by Worldometer, reached six-million-10-thousand as of Monday.
The U.S. has the most deaths, followed by Brazil, India, Russia and Mexico.
South Korea is 65th on the list, with over nine-thousand deaths as of Monday.
But experts point out the current death toll might be just the tip of the iceberg.

"That takes into account undiagnosed deaths, deaths that happen at home, undercounting, under reporting, because of lack of testing, and that's all happening in the developing countries."

South Africa has seen over three-point-five million cases and just over 99-thousand five-hundred deaths have been confirmed since the start of the pandemic.
The low vaccination rate there has also played a role in the death toll.

"If they had been vaccinated, maybe they could have survived the virus. That's what I believe."

Experts note the crisis in Ukraine could bring up the death toll, with a large number of unvaccinated Ukrainian refugees flowing into Eastern European countries like Poland and Hungary.
While over one-point-five million Ukrainian refugees have fled over the past ten days, those countries do provide them with vaccines for free but do not carry out infection tests.
Kim Dami, Arirang News.

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2022-03-07, 22:00 (KST)