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New Delhi, Sep 26: The global death toll from COVID-19 could double to 2 million before a successful vaccine is widely used, an official at the World Health Organization said on Friday.
“Unless we do it all, (2 million deaths) … is not only imaginable, but sadly very likely,” Mike Ryan, head of the UN agency’s emergencies programme, told at a briefing.
The number of deaths about nine months since the novel coronavirus was discovered is nearing 1 million.
“We are not out of the woods anywhere, we are not out of the woods in Africa,” said Ryan.
He said young people should not be blamed for a…
