The number of deaths caused by COVID-19 in the U.S. since July is six times the average rate in other high-income economies, a U.S. news website said.
Among the 83 countries and regions included in World Bank’s list of “high-income economies,” the U.S. is “one of very few” that have failed to control the virus since the pandemic, according to a report by AXIOS.
Since July 1, 75 per cent of all new confirmed COVID-19 cases and 69 per cent of all deaths recorded in the rich world occured in the U.S., which accounts for 27 per cent of the group’s population, it said.
Basing its report on statistics from the World Health Organisation and Johns Hopkins University, AXIOS said other wealthy countries and regions had suffered pandemic peaks or sharp increases in cases and deaths as “terrifying” as America’s.
However, the U.S. remains “an exception,” since “it was hit so hard so early, and has never truly recovered,” the report said.
So far, America suffers the second highest spike in daily new cases in the world behind India.
Of the 10 countries currently recording the highest daily increases, the U.S. is the only high-income country, it added.
Xinhua/NAN
