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The Spanish health authorities will no longer try to trace cases or count them, so there will be no more updates on overall Covid figures as there have been until now.
The figures for infections probably underestimate the true scale of the pandemic due to possible under-reporting and different testing regimes. Death toll figures are also uncertain because some countries report deaths on the basis of symptoms without doing a positive test, while other countries do not include them. However, these are the best figures I can find.
Approximately 394,482,875 cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed worldwide as of 31 January 2022. The World Health Organization estimates that 1,000 million people worldwide get the flu every year.
There have been 5,753,883 deaths from Covid-19 reported worldwide as of 31 January 2022. The World Health Organization estimates that 290,000 to 650,000 people die of flu-related causes every year worldwide. So Covid appears to be about 50 times more lethal than flu.
For more complete information and discussion of this question there are several excellent web sites, including the following:
There are also several articles urging caution in the comparison between 'flu' and Covid-19 using currently published data. Some examples are:
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