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| Global Covid-19 death toll tops 500,000 – Johns Hopkins tally | Global Covid-19 death toll tops 500,000 – Johns Hopkins tally |
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| The number of officially confirmed deaths linked to Covid-19 across the globe has crossed half a million, with roughly a quarter of them recorded in the United States, according to the tally compiled by Johns Hopkins University. | The number of officially confirmed deaths linked to Covid-19 across the globe has crossed half a million, with roughly a quarter of them recorded in the United States, according to the tally compiled by Johns Hopkins University. |
| The global pandemic of the coronavirus, which was first recorded in Wuhan, China in December, has so far infected over 10 million people. | |
| While the nations around the globe rushed to impose harsh lockdowns and quarantines – many of them have since begun to gradually lift the isolation measures. | |
| Despite concerns of a second wave of infections, many argued that associated health risks from isolation and millions of lost jobs amid economic collapse was making the “cure” worse than the disease. | |
| Health officials in the US have been warning that the country is not even close to defeating the pandemic, while some states even reimposed the restrictions they just lifted, seeing a sharp spike in new infections – although the number of deaths continues to fall. | |
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