The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has come with information that has shocked numerous. The numbers reveal that the covid-19 has claimed more lives in the US than Spanish flu, a 1918 pandemic that killed more than 6,75,000 men and women in the US. As per to Our World in Data’s update till 10 pm on Tuesday, the death toll in the nation due to covid-19 stood at 6,76,076, creating it the deadliest pandemic ever in the US.
According to an editorial in the Postgraduate Medical Journal, the case of the 1st 1918 pandemic was reported in Madrid. But the reports also stated that the flu did not truly originate in Spain. This pandemic remains one of the deadliest pandemic of the 20th century. It’s spread was fuelled by international troop movement throughout WWI.
Globally, the 1918 pandemic claimed at least 50 million lives, as per the information cited by CDC. As for India, the numbers stand involving 12-13 million, according to a study published in the journal Demography in 2016. But then, in 2018, an additional study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology noted that a total quantity of 17.4 million men and women died globally due to influenza.
The United States is now easing its covid led restrictions and will quickly be enabling foreign travellers to enter its borders from the UK, EU followed by other nations. Foreign travellers will be permitted to travel into the US from November onwards offered they are completely vaccinated. They will have to, on the other hand, go via testing and speak to tracing as properly. The nation has had difficult travel restrictions in spot considering the fact that early last year due to covid. This move would imply that buddies and households who have been separated by the restrictions can ultimately meet and reunite. “It’s a happy day for us”, French entrepreneur Stephane Le Breton was quoted as saying to news agency Associated press as he appears forward to flying to New York for a trip.
The restrictions from the US have been 1st imposed on travellers from China in early 2020 when the pandemic hit the nation. It was then extended to other nations as properly.