Vaccines help slash coronavirus death rate to 2%: Hopkins data

Unequal access and distrust loom large as global death toll tops 5 million

A boy in Bogota receives a COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac. Roughly half of the global population has received at least one shot so far. © Reuters

AIKO MUNAKATA and HANA SLEVIN OHAMA, Nikkei staff writers

November 2, 2021 11:05 JST

TOKYO -- Though global deaths from the coronavirus topped 5 million on Monday, the pandemic's mortality rate has plunged from its peak thanks to the progress on vaccinations in developed countries.