PARIS: The global death toll from Covid-19, which is set to pass five million, is already far worse than most other viral epidemics of the 20th and 21st centuries.

But there have been notable exceptions. The post-World War 1 Spanish Flu wiped out more than 50 million people in 1918-19, according to some estimates.

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