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COVID-19 death toll reaches three million amid deepening crisis in counties like Brazil, India and France
The global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has topped 3 million people amid repeated setbacks in the worldwide vaccination campaign and a deepening crisis in places such as Brazil, India and France.
Key points:
- The number of lives lost is about equal to the population of metropolitan Lisbon, Portugal
- When the world passed 2 million deaths in January, immunisation drives had just started in Europe and the United State
- But now deaths are on the rise again worldwide, running at around 12,000 per day on average, and new cases are climbing too, eclipsing 700,000 a day
The number of deaths, compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the population of metropolitan Lisbon, Portugal and is greater than the population of…
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