The who estimated mortality rate from coronavirus

The mortality rate among patients with coronavirus infection is approximately equal to 0.6%. This was stated by head of technical team of the division of emergency diseases, world health organization (who) Maria van Kerkhove, RIA “Novosti”.

According to her, there are several ways of counting. One thing is the number of deaths, the number of cases that have been reported. Other — if you look at the number of deaths among all who have been diagnosed with an infection.

“Estimates range less than the same period in 1% or 0.6%,” — said Kerchove.

She noted that currently this level is confirmed by several studies.

According to the Director of the who programme on emergency health Michael Ryan, this level suggests that 200 of those infected may have one fatal case.

According to who, the number of cases of coronavirus infection around the world has exceeded 17.6 million, more than 680 thousand people died.