June 12, Kathmandu- Compared to last year, 2020, more deaths have been reported in the world this year. At the end of 2019, the Covid 19 virus was detected in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. Then in 2020, the virus spread around the world.

But more people have been killed by the virus this year than last year. According to the US Wall Street Journal, more people have died from covid in the first six months of this year than in the previous year.

In the first six months of this year alone, more than 1.8 million people worldwide have died from covid infection, according to a report from Johns Hopkins University in the United States. "Even though many countries around the world are now being vaccinated with the invention of the vaccine, the death toll has not stopped since the beginning of this year," the report said.

According to the university, the death toll from the Covid epidemic is still high in many parts of the world.