New Delhi, Apr 22 (UNI) A host of other diseases, almost all of them preventable and treatable, cause many more deaths than the Coronavius, said statistics.
According to Global Burden of Disease (GBD) of the World Health Organisation (WHO), ischemic heart disease alone can, on an average day, kill almost 26,000 people worldwide.
The GBD data said in India, apart from heart and respiratory diseases, nearly 2,000 people die every day from diarrhoea and over 1,200 from tuberculosis.