Covid-19 compared with other deadly viruses
The global death toll from Covid-19, which has passed five million, is already far worse than most other viral epidemics of the 20th and 21st centuries
What next for Covid after five million deaths?
Covid-19 has killed more than five million people since the WHO reported the outbreak of the disease in December 2019, and experts say the pandemic's future path will depend greatly on vaccinations
20th century pandemics more deadly than today’s epidemics
Before the emergence of the new coronavirus, which has caused global alarm, other epidemics struck earlier this century but were less deadly than the previous century's pandemics