WHO Says Global Coronavirus Death Toll Surpasses 4 million, Johns Hopkins University Says

Daily Mail: Global death-toll from coronavirus pandemic reaches 4 MILLION - more than all the world's wars since 1982 - as WHO chief hits out at rich nations for snapping up the 'lion's share' of vaccines

* World passed 'tragic milestone' of four million recorded Covid-19 deaths on Wednesday

* WHO said the true death toll of the coronavirus pandemic was likely higher

* There have been more than 184,100,000 cases around the world since start

* The tally of lives lost over the past year and a half is about equal to the number of people killed in battle in all of the world's wars since 1982

* In recent weeks, the mutant Indian Delta variant has set off alarms around the world, spreading rapidly even in vaccination success stories like the U.S., Britain and Israel. In the US, it accounts for half of all new infections

* WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus some countries with high vaccination coverage were now 'relaxing as though the pandemic is already over

* He also criticized richer nations for pre-purchasing shots.

* 'Vaccine nationalism, where a handful of nations have taken the lion's share, is morally indefensible,' he said

More than four million people have now died of Covid-19 infections, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, but added that the true death toll of the pandemic was likely higher.

Many richer nations are preparing to loosen lockdown restrictions even as countries in Asia battle surging infections.

'The world is at a perilous point in this pandemic. We have just passed the tragic milestone of four million recorded Covid-19 deaths, which likely underestimates the overall toll,' WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference.

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