Original title: the new crown outbreak caused the shrinking population of Alabama
According to the US congressional Hill newspaper September 19th, the number of deaths in Alabama, which was hit by COVID-19, exceeded the number of births in 2020. This is the first time that the population has been shrinking in the state.
Alabama health official Scott Harris said, "even during the two world wars or the 1918 influenza epidemic, the death toll exceeded the birth toll has never occurred, or even approached."
Alabama has 64714 deaths and 57641 births in 2020. So far, novel coronavirus pneumonia cases have been diagnosed in the state, and more than 13000 deaths have been reported in 768000 cases. (CCTV reporter Xu Dezhi and Xu Xiao)