The Management of Disasters: International Disaster Management Introduction to International Disaster ManagementChapter 1 Introduction to Emergency ManagementChapter 8 This infographic is provided by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters. The COVID-19 global pandemic has a death toll exceeding 1.2 million people as of November 1, 2020, which is greater than all 10 of these combined.