According to the Johns Hopkins University Observatory, the number of deaths reported from the coronavirus surpassed one million on Monday night.
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The United States, with more than 204,000 deaths, is the country with the highest number of deaths from this cause in the world. One in five people who lost their lives from the disease was in the United States.
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The US, Brazil, India, Mexico and the United Kingdom are, in this order, the countries with the highest number of deaths.
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Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO emergency program, said Monday that the actual death toll from coronavirus is likely higher than the official one.
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Nine months after the virus appeared in the city of Wuhan, China, the epidemic shows no signs of abating, nor has it been controlled.
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The WHO warned last week that unless decisive action is taken, the number of deaths attributed to the coronavirus could exceed two million.
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As the coronavirus continues to spread across the globe, efforts to find a vaccine are reflected in more than one one hundred developments of possible vaccines, of which 9 are in the final phase.
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