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Global death toll from COVID-19 tops 2 million
1 month ago | By WGN TV
The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 2 million Friday as vaccines developed at breakneck speed are being rolled out around the world in an all-out campaign to vanquish the virus.
The milestone was reached just over a year after the coronavirus was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
The number of dead, compiled by Johns Hopkins University , is about equal to the population of Brussels, Mecca, Houston or Vienna.
It took eight months to hit 1 million dead. It took less than four months after that to reach the next million. Worldwide there have been more than 93 million...
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Global death toll from COVID-19 tops 2M amid vaccine rollout
1 month ago | By WLKY
The global death toll from COIVID-19 has topped 2 million as vaccines developed at breakneck speed are being rolled out around the world in an all-out campaign to vanquish the threat.
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