BREAKING: Global Covid death toll hits 6,000,000 in grim milestone.
The global Covid death toll has hit 6 million in a tragic milestone for the pandemic as it enters its third year.
The last million deaths were recorded over the last four months, according to the tally compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Remote Pacific islands, long protected by their isolation, are just now grappling with their first outbreaks and deaths, fuelled by the highly contagious Omicron variant. Death rates remain high in Poland as it welcomes hundreds of thousands of refugees from war-torn Ukraine.
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