THE global death toll from Covid-19 has topped three million as cases continue to spiral in countries across the world.
It comes amid repeated setbacks in the worldwide vaccination campaign and a deepening crisis in places such as Brazil, India and France.
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The number of lives lost – as compiled by Johns Hopkins University – is almost equal to the population of Kyiv, Ukraine; Caracas, Venezuela; or metropolitan Lisbon, Portugal.
It is bigger than Chicago (2.7million) and equivalent to Philadelphia and Dallas combined.
But the true number is believed to be significantly higher because of possible government concealment and the many cases overlooked in the early stages of the outbreak that began in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019.
Worldwide, deaths are on the rise again, running at around 12,000 per day on average, and new cases are climbing too, surpassing 700,000 a day.
When the world back in January passed the bleak threshold of two million deaths, immunisation drives had just started in Europe and the United States.
Today, they are underway in more than 190 countries – though progress in bringing the virus under control varies widely.
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