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Global death toll from COVID-19 tops 2 million amid vaccine rollout
The global death toll from COVID-19 has topped 2 million as vaccines developed at breakneck speed are being rolled out around the world in an all-out campaign to vanquish the threat.
Key points:
- Over 93 million cases have been confirmed worldwide
- It took eight months to hit 1 million dead but less than four months to reach the next million
- Experts are predicting another year of loss and hardship for developing nations
The milestone was reached just over a year after the coronavirus was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
The number of dead, compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the population of Perth, Brussels, Mecca or Vienna.
While the count is based on figures supplied by government agencies around the world, the…
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