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Global death toll from COVID-19 tops 2 million amid vaccine rollout – KSDK.com
It took eight months to hit 1 million dead from COVID-19. It took less than four months after that to reach the next million.
The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 2 million Friday, crossing the threshold amid a vaccine rollout so immense but so uneven that in some countries there is real hope of vanquishing the outbreak, while in other, less-developed parts of the world, it seems a far-off dream.
The numbing figure 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 Brussels,…
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