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A health worker administers a jab of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine during a vaccination drive for people ages 30 to 39 in Mexico City
The global death toll from Covid-19 has passed four million 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.
Global COVID-19 deaths hit 4 million amid rush to vaccinate
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FILE - In this July 2, 2021, file photo, a woman breaks down as she prays before the cremation of a relative who died of COVID-19 in Gauhati, India. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath, File)
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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Global covid-19 deaths hit 4 million mark
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July 7, 2021 at 9:02 p.m.
A woman breaks down Friday, July 2, 2021, in Gauhati, India, as she prays before the cremation of a relative who died of covid-19. While India has reported more than 400,000 people lost to the coronavirus, experts believe the actual number is much higher, citing a lack of testing and reporting. (AP/Anupam Nath)
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.
As global COVID-19 deaths top 4 million, a suicide in Peru
AREQUIPA, Peru (AP) â On the last day of Javier Vilca s life, his wife stood outside a hospital window with a teddy bear, red balloons and a box of chocolates to celebrate his birthday, and held up a giant, hand-scrawled sign that read: âDon t give up. You re the best man in the world.â
Minutes later, Vilca, a 43-year-old struggling radio journalist who had battled depression, jumped four stories to his death â the fifth suicide by a COVID-19 patient at Peru s overwhelmed Honorio Delgado hospital since the pandemic began.
Vilca became yet another symbol of the despair caused by the coronavirus and the stark and seemingly growing inequities exposed by COVID-19 on its way to a worldwide death toll of 4 million, a milestone recorded Wednesday by Johns Hopkins University.
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The global death toll from Covid-19 has passed four million as the crisis increasingly becomes a race between the vaccine and the highly contagious delta variant.