The COVID-19 pandemic global death toll has hit the 5 million mark, according to the John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. The center reported early Monday a grim milestone of 5,000,425 global deaths from the COVID outbreak. The new death tally comes just months after 4 million deaths from COVID-19 were recorded in June. The milestone […]
With the global death toll from COVID-19 pandemic now over 900,000, the top infectious disease expert in the United States says that drugmaker AstraZeneca’s suspension of final global trials of its experimental vaccine points to the effectiveness of the safeguards that have been incorporated into the trials. “It’s important to point out that that’s the […]
The coronavirus pandemic has hit a grim milestone — 1 million confirmed cases. The count by Johns Hopkins University says almost one-fourth, 236,000, are in the United States. The worldwide death toll stands at more than 53,000. Italy reported the most fatalities with more than 13,000 and climbing daily. A question on nearly everyone’s lips […]
The World Health Organization determined Wednesday that the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak is now a pandemic and warned that the worst is yet to come. “WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction,” […]