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As of 3 July, Australia had 7,290 confirmed cases. The first Australian death was on 19 June and the total death toll reached 20. [346] The alert level was raised from "delay" to "contain", giving authorities in all states the option to close schools. [347] Australia stockpiled 8.7 million doses of Tamiflu and Relenza. [348]
This article contains the number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths per population as of 24 February 2025, by country. It also has cumulative death totals by country. For these numbers over time see the tables, graphs, and maps at COVID-19 pandemic deaths and COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory.
Global excess and reported COVID-19 deaths and death rates per 100,000 population according to the WHO study [12] A December 2022 WHO study comprehensively estimated excess deaths from the pandemic during 2020 and 2021, concluding ~14.8 million excess early deaths occurred, reaffirming their prior calculations from May as well as updating them ...
For a given epidemic or pandemic, the average of its estimated death toll range is used for ranking. If the death toll averages of two or more epidemics or pandemics are equal, then the smaller the range, the higher the rank. For the historical records of major changes in the world population, see world population. [3]
The 1889–1890 pandemic, often referred to as the Asiatic flu [57] or Russian flu, killed about 1 million people [58] [59] out of a world population of about 1.5 billion. It was long believed to be caused by an influenza A subtype (most often H2N2), but recent analysis largely brought on by the 2002-2004 SARS outbreak and the COVID-19 pandemic ...
Some 1,383 deaths registered in the week to January 6 had flu and pneumonia recorded as the underlying cause, 9% of the total. The weekly figure peaked at 7% in the pre-Covid winter of 2019/20.
An outbreak of H5N1 killed 70% of Southern elephant seal pups born in the 2023 breeding season. In surveyed areas of Península Valdés, Argentina, seal mortality rates reached 96%. [7] In February 2024 it was estimated that the outbreak of H5N1 in South America had killed at least 600,000 wild birds and 50,000 mammals since 2022. [7]
This page summarises the figures from the WHO Influenza A Situation Updates issued roughly once every other day, [1] and since 6 July from ECDC.For each country or territory, the table lists the number of confirmed cases of swine flu on the first reported day each month, and the latest figure.