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A year since the rollout of vaccinations started, the official death toll due to COVID-19 has surpassed 800,000 in the United States, making it the country worst hit by the pandemic. According to the tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University, around 450,000 of those deaths took place in 2021, despite …

More than 5 million people worldwide have died after being infected with COVID, the latest tally by Johns Hopkins University showed on Monday. The grim milestone was reached as several countries attempt to curb the spread of the highly infectious delta variant. While it took just over a year for …