Five years after the outbreak: teaching from the greatest pandemic in history!

Five years after the outbreak: teaching from the greatest pandemic in history!

Five years ago, on the last day of 2019, China for the first time reported cases of a new respiratory disease to the World Health Organization (WHO). This reporting marked the beginning of global corona pandemic. The Virus Sars-Cov-2, which probably originated on a fish market in Wuhan, spread out at lightning speed and led to millions of illnesses and over five million official deaths worldwide. Around 6.08 million infections were registered in Austria by July 2023, with around 22,500 deaths in direct connection with the virus, as 5min.at

Although the WHO declared the pandemic on May 5, 2023, the tragedy of our time remains in the memory. A year after the first outbreak, the vaccination campaign in the EU began at the end of December 2020, which was one of the most important measures to combat the virus. The vaccines were able to make a decisive contribution to the immunity of the population and helped normalize everyday life. But the pandemic effects are still noticeable, and the teachings from this time will be accompanied by us for a long time.

A look at the death figures

The current Corona pandemic is one of the most deadliest epidemics of the past hundred years, over five million people have passed away by the virus-according to WHO, the actual number could even be twice or triple as swp.de . Corona thus exceeds the number of victims of most other virus pandemia in the 20th and 21st centuries. Only the Spanish flu and AIDS have demanded more lives in modern history. The effects of these pandemics remain a warning example of the urgency of vaccinations and preventive measures in global health care.