The global death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed 4 million on Wednesday as the crisis increasingly becomes a race between the vaccine and the highly contagious delta variant.
The tally of lives lost over the past year and a half, as compiled from official sources by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the number of people killed in battle in all of the world’s wars since 1982, according to estimates from the Peace Research Institute Oslo.
Even then, it is widely believed to be an undercount because of overlooked cases or deliberate concealment.
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Kerala
As Kerala eases pandemic regulations, Health Minister cautions against dropping guard
COVID-19 restrictions became less restrictive in large swathes of Kerala from Thursday.
Nevertheless, Health Minister Veena George cautioned people against dropping guard….