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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.
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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