⁍ COVID-19 deaths this year is now double the number of people who die annually from malaria.

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⁍ More than 5,400 people are dying around the world every 24 hours.

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⁍ In the time it takes to watch a 90-minute soccer match, 340 people die on average.

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– “Our world has reached an agonizing milestone,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement Tuesday. “It’s a mind-numbing figure. Yet we must never lose sight of each and every individual life. They were fathers and mothers, wives and husbands, brothers and sisters, friends and colleagues.” According to a Reuters tally based on September averages, more than 1 million people have died from coronavirus so far in 2018. That’s double the number of people who die each year from malaria. “So many people have lost so many people and haven’t had the chance to say goodbye,” a World Health Organization spokeswoman said at a briefing in Geneva. “Many, many of the people who died alone in medical circumstances where it’s a terribly difficult and lonely death.” In the US, the death toll stood at 205,132 as of Monday, while cases were at 7.18 million around the world, the Washington Post reports. India has seen the highest daily growth in infections, with an average of 87,500 new cases a day since the beginning of September. The US, Brazil, and India together account for 45% of the global death toll. “We must not forget that this pandemic is still accelerating and shows no signs of slowing down,” Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust global health charity, said in a statement. “We must do everything in our power to bring this pandemic, and all its harmful consequences, to an end as quickly as possible.”