If the world hadn’t taken action against the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the world would have become infected and 40 million lives could been lost, says a new report. “We estimate that in the absence of interventions, COVID-19 would have resulted in 7.0 billion infections and 40 million deaths globally this year,” says a March 26 report by the Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team.
The World Health Organization declared a global pandemic on March 11, and global infections as of March 30 surpassed 690,000.
The global death toll is currently more than 33,100. As the pandemic spread across the world, countries started issuing lockdowns, quarantines and border closures in response.