Four million people have been killed by Covid-19 globally, 18 months after the virus emerged in China. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the world is at a dangerous point in the pandemic. Ghebreyesus said "far too many countries all over the world were seeing sharp spikes in cases and hospitalisations". The world passed the "tragic milestone" of four million recorded Covid-19 fatalities on Wednesday, the World Health Organisation said, adding that the pandemic's true toll was probably higher. We have just passed the tragic milestone of four million recorded Covid-19 deaths, which likely underestimates the overall toll," Tedros told a press conference at WHO headquarters in Geneva.

Source: News 24 July 07, 2021 16:18 UTC