Global Covid-19 death toll hits 4-million mark amid rush to vaccinate
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.
The toll is three times the number of
people killed in traffic accidents around the globe every year. It is about
equal to the population of Los Angeles or the nation of Georgia. It is
equivalent to more than half of Hong Kong or close to 50% of New York City.
Even then, it is widely believed to be an
undercount because of overlooked cases or deliberate concealment. Read
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