SHARE When the ambulance arrived at the Salqeen Cemetery in north-western Syria, a small crowd was already waiting. Three men dressed in white hazmat suits opened the back door to reveal a body bag.
Ghada Ismael was only 25 years old. She survived a decade-long civil war before the Covid-19 pandemic came.
Friends and family gathered in front of the deceased and began praying, led by an imam. A grieving relative broke down in tears. Did you place her body in the right direction so that her head faces Makkah?” one of the men in white enquired as his colleagues delicately placed the body in
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More than 20.5 million years of life have been lost around the world since the Covid-19 outbreak began, a
study has shown.
The report, based on data from 81 countries, lays bare the devastating loss caused by the pandemic and estimated that an average of 16 years of life have been lost from each death from Covid-19.
While highlighting the scale of the pandemic
, the study may underestimate years of life lost (YLL) – calculated by comparing a person’s
age at death with their expected lifespan –
because it uses figures from early January and excludes dozens of
nations.
Published in the journal