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Worldwide virus death toll tops 3 million – The West Australian
The World Health Organisation says new coronavirus infections are rising globally, eclipsing 700,000 a day.
The global death toll from the coronavirus 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.
The number of lives lost, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the population of Kyiv, Ukraine; Caracas, Venezuela or metropolitan Lisbon, Portugal.
And the true number is believed to be significantly higher because of possible government concealment and the many cases overlooked…
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