UN Chief Says Pandemic Toll Is ‘Mind-nuMbing’

FILE – In this July 21 2020, file photo, funeral home workers in protective suits carry the coffin of a woman who died from COVID-19 into a hearse in Katlehong, near Johannesburg, South Africa. The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus eclipsed 1 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. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

UNITED NATIONS United Nations Secretary-General Antnio Guterres says the loss of 1 million people to the coronavirus is an agonizing milestone” that has been made worse by the savageness of this disease.”

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