A health worker takes care of a COVID-19 patient in the ICU of the Sharp Coronado Hospital in San Diego, California. (Photo: EPA-Yonhap News)
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The total number of coronavirus cases recorded around the world has now surpassed 100 million.
More than a quarter of them have been in the United States, with India and Brazil having the next highest total.
The BBC's David Shukman reports on why some countries might have seen so many people die from COVID-19.
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The relative age of the countries' people may be a factor along with the quality of healthcare.
But according to Dr. David Nabarro, an advisor to the World Health Organization, the speed of response by different governments last year was what mattered.
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"There's a lot more virus, 1,000 population in the U.K. and the U.S. in my view, than there is in some of the East Asian countries, which have reacted more rapidly and more robustly when the outbreak starts."
It's also clear that what's crucial is having a highly effective system of finding new cases and their context, and then getting them all to isolate.
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