Global Covid Deaths Hit 5 Million As Delta Variant Sweeps The World

More than half of the world has yet to receive at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to Our World in Data.

Worldwide deaths related to COVID-19 surpassed 5 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, as the Delta variant causes a surge in death, mainly among the unvaccinated.

More than half of the world has yet to receive at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to Our World in Data. 

It took almost over a year for the COVID-19 deaths to hit 2.5 million, while the next 2.5 million deaths were recorded in 236 days, according to a Reuters analysis

More than half of all global deaths reported on a seven-day average were in the United States, Russia, Brazil, Mexico and India.