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Worldwide COVID-19 death toll tops a staggering 3 million

Virus Outbreak 3 Million Deaths
Posted at 5:36 AM, Apr 17, 2021
and last updated 2021-04-17 05:36:07-04

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The global death toll from the coronavirus has topped a staggering 3 million people.

The milestone, recorded by Johns Hopkins University, comes amid repeated setbacks in the worldwide vaccination campaign and a deepening crisis in places such as Brazil, India and France.

The toll is about equal to the population of Kyiv, Ukraine; Caracas, Venezuela; or metropolitan Lisbon, Portugal. It is bigger than Chicago (2.7 million) and equivalent to Philadelphia and Dallas combined.