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Sep
29
2020
By The African Mirror
Global coronavirus deaths pass ‘agonizing milestone’ of 1 million

Global coronavirus deaths pass ‘agonizing milestone’ of 1 million

COVID-19
JANE WARDELL THE global death toll from COVID-19 rose past 1 million, according to a Reuters tally, a bleak milestone in a pandemic that has devastated the global economy, overloaded health systems and changed the way people live. The number of deaths from the novel coronavirus this year is now double the number of people who die annually from malaria - and the death rate has increased in recent weeks as infections surge in several countries. "Our world has reached an agonizing milestone," U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement. "It's a mind-numbing figure. Yet we must never lose…
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Sep
26
2020
By The African Mirror
Global COVID-19 death toll could hit 2 million before vaccine in wide use -WHO

Global COVID-19 death toll could hit 2 million before vaccine in wide use -WHO

COVID-19
THE global death toll from COVID-19 could double to 2 million before a successful vaccine is widely used and could be even higher without concerted action to curb the pandemic, according to an official at the World Health Organization. "Unless we do it all, (2 million deaths) ... is not only imaginable, but sadly very likely," Mike Ryan, head of the U.N. agency's emergencies programme, told a briefing. The number of deaths about nine months since the novel coronavirus was discovered in China is nearing one million "We are not out of the woods anywhere, we are not out of…
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