The global death toll from COVID-19 has surpassed 1 million, with confirmed infections at more than 33 million, a tally by Johns Hopkins University in the United States showed Monday.The COVID-19 death toll in the nine months since the first case of novel coronavirus infection was reported to the World Health Organization exceeds the annual fatalities of around 400,000 from malaria and 690,000 from AIDS, according to the latest figures.COVID-19 has caused 100,000 deaths every few weeks since the total topped 100,000 worldwide on April 10 and the death toll could exceed the 1.5 million annua…READ FULL ARTICLE
