World virus death toll close to passing 1M mark

(28 Sep 2020) The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus is close to eclipsing one million, nine months into a crisis that has devastated the global economy, tested world leaders’ resolve, pitted science against politics and forced multitudes to change the way they live, learn and work. At 1940GMT, the total stood at 999,273, according to data collated by Johns Hopkins University of Medicine, with 33,217,895 confirmed virus cases. Although the true number of deaths is hard to know, and could be much hi