Global Covid-19 Death Toll Crosses 4 Million Mark
The tally of lives lost to covid-19 over the past year and a half is about equal to the number of people killed in battle in all of the world s wars since 1982.
Associated Press (AP) 08 July 2021, Last Updated at 9:52 am outlookindia.com 2021-07-08T09:52:03+05:30
The global death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed 4 million Wednesday as the crisis increasingly becomes a race between the vaccine and the highly contagious delta variant.
The tally of lives lost over the past year and a half, as compiled from official sources by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the number of people killed in battle in all of the world s wars since 1982, according to estimates from the Peace Research Institute Oslo.
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