Sentences with phrase «death toll»

The official death toll from the storm is 51, though the actual number is very likely in the hundreds, as we've reported.

Some 400 of the big aquatic mammals died in 1996, the largest death toll in 22 years and nearly double the previous record.

The mounting death toll of midwife attended preventable neonatal deaths and preventable maternal deaths demonstrates that efforts to promote normal birth kill babies and mothers.

The area currently has a high death toll which is caused largely by very preventable sanitation - related diseases.

«Since reports are not yet available for all European countries, the total heat death toll for the continent is likely to be substantially larger,» it says in a statement.

The official death toll stands at 93 but that did not include an estimated 20 newly discovered bodies that remain in the water, the coast guard said.

The annual death toll from global tobacco use is predicted to rise to 8 million by 2030.

The current death toll stands at 17, with 14 others injured.

The government's latest figures on the final death toll suggest that many of those yet to be found are likely dead.

Poor sanitation combines with a lack of safe drinking water and inadequate hygiene to contribute to the terrible global death toll.

The true death toll is pure speculation at this point, but it is most likely in the hundreds.

While the official death toll remains at 16, that number has not been updated and is believed inaccurate.

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... why the knowledge of 9,000 years of city collapse in earthquakes, and a known cumulative death toll of more than 10 million people, has not led to safer construction everywhere.

Global warming amplified death toll during 2003 European heat wave.

Providing access to clean cooking for all lowers the premature death toll by 1.8 million people per year in 2030.

Update: This article was updated with the latest death toll.

According to recent reports, the Palestinian death toll from the present attacks has passed 200, with 80 % of the dead believed to be civilians.

Eight attackers have been reportedly died after killing 120 people before the current death toll which have risen to 150.

The national death toll from the storm is around 4,000 people.

There were conflicting death toll figures with some saying twelve while others reported sixteen.

Thousands more are said to have since died or been injured as a result of the toxic cloud, although the exact death toll remains unclear.

These involve lots of shooting and their aftermath boasts an astronomical death toll.

Given the awful death toll of our automotive addiction, this is a trend that shouldn't just be celebrated — but actively encouraged.

While there are a number of theories as to why the nation's traffic death toll is on the rise, one fact remains — fatalities are up.

In particular they could reduce the terrible death toll from mass shootings.

Since many ecosystems and cities are not adapted to this, prolonged hot periods can result in a high death toll, forest fires, and dramatic harvest losses.

Last year's death toll of 125 from tornadoes in this country was the highest in a decade and the second - highest in more than 30 years.

But the more troubling finding, the researchers say, is that the annual death toll would rise to 6.6 million by 2050 without new controls.

According to published reports, the country's foreign minister fears the final death toll may rise as high as 50,000.

If that's the case, then the death is counted in the official death toll.

But the sharp jump in the cumulative death toll isn't the only disturbing new development.

The current death toll is 80 and is likely to rise.

(The power number is negative because it reflects a decrease rather than an increase in the number of events as death tolls rise.)

He wrote: «As death toll rises to 90, I'm sure Jon Trickett will reflect & realise this comparison is not clever & not funny.»

Trump touted the response to Hurricane Maria as he attended the briefing on relief efforts, noting that the territory's officials «can be proud» of the relatively low death toll on the island compared to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

The Trust's mission is to reverse the rapidly increasing death toll caused by hepatitis C in the UK until no - one dies from this preventable and treatable disease and, ultimately, it is all but eradicated in this country.

The high death toll caused by this hurricane was due to lack of prepareness.

Obstetrician Prabas Misra of Furness General in Cumbria expressed his concern about the rising death toll among midwife attended patients in a letter to his colleagues (Is an obsession with natural birth putting mothers and babies in danger?)

President Trump said Puerto Ricans should be «proud» of the low death toll after Hurricane Maria.

After one of the deadliest storms on record, aid workers find that there is still hope The estimated death toll in the Philippines has risen to more than... More

Similarly, the Christian churches of South Africa, both black and white, could once have ended the policy of apartheid through nonviolent reforms, but today, as the black death toll mounts into the thousands, it is difficult to imagine that the system will fall unless commensurate force is brought to bear against it.

And green ideologues work tirelessly to ensure that the callous, needless global death toll continues to rise.

The terrorist attack, with a reported death toll of 24 victims and another 49 to 65 wounded, was the worst to target Copts since the 2011 New Year's bombing of a church in Alexandria that killed 23 people.

Hurricane Matthew: Death toll soars in Haiti (Oct 8th 2016) Aljazeera.

Don't take alarming death toll numbers at face value — the noxious gases in the air won't kill you outright, but they will cut your time on Earth