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Virus death toll eclipses one million – Yahoo News Australia

The worldwide coronavirus death toll has reached one million, four times the number killed in the 2004 earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean.

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The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus has eclipsed one million, nine months into a crisis that has devastated the global economy, tested world leaders’ resolve, pitted science against politics and forced multitudes to change the way they live, learn and work.
“It’s not just a number. It’s human beings. It’s people we love,” says Dr Howard Markel, a professor of medical history at the University of Michigan who has advised government on pandemics and lost his 84-year-old mother to COVID-…

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