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sandensea

(22,850 posts)
Sun Sep 27, 2020, 08:06 PM Sep 2020

Global coronavirus death toll passes one million

The global death toll from the new coronavirus, which emerged less than a year ago in China and has swept across the world, passed one million on Sunday.

The pandemic has ravaged the global economy, inflamed geopolitical tensions and upended lives, from Indian slums and Brazil's jungles to America's biggest city New York.

Drastic controls that put half of humanity - more than four billion people - under some form of lockdown by April at first slowed its pace; but since restrictions were eased cases have soared again.

On Sunday 2230 GMT the disease had claimed 1,000,009 victims from 33,018,877 recorded infections, according to an AFP tally using official sources.

The United States has the highest death toll with more than 200,000 fatalities - followed by Brazil, India, Mexico and Britain.

At: https://news.yahoo.com/global-coronavirus-death-toll-passes-225324933.html



An old-age home being evacuated recently in Buenos Aires, Argentina - where despite early and stringent measures, the daily Covid-19 death rate is now among the highest in the world.
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Global coronavirus death toll passes one million (Original Post) sandensea Sep 2020 OP
America #1! David__77 Sep 2020 #1
I just checked out Worldometers bar graphs BigmanPigman Sep 2020 #2
Hmmmm ... does that still count as 'virtually nobody' ? eppur_se_muova Sep 2020 #3
As Orange Amin might say: sandensea Sep 2020 #4

BigmanPigman

(52,269 posts)
2. I just checked out Worldometers bar graphs
Sun Sep 27, 2020, 08:30 PM
Sep 2020

and the new cases and new deaths are both increasing. That means in a few weeks it will be even worse.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

eppur_se_muova

(37,436 posts)
3. Hmmmm ... does that still count as 'virtually nobody' ?
Mon Sep 28, 2020, 09:54 AM
Sep 2020

Is the convention that we round off to the nearest 10 million ?

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