PARIS, France (AFP) – The global death toll from the new coronavirus, which emerged less than a year ago in China and has swept across the world, passed one million on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The pandemic has ravaged the global economy, inflamed geopolitical tensions and upended lives, from Indian slums and Brazil’s jungles to America’s biggest city New York.<\/p>\n
World sports, live entertainment and international travel ground to a halt as fans, audiences and tourists were forced to stay at home, kept inside by strict measures imposed to curb the virus spread.<\/p>\n
Drastic controls that put half of humanity — more than four billion people — under some form of lockdown by April at first slowed its pace, but since restrictions were eased cases have soared again.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, the disease had claimed 1,000,009 victims from 33,018,877 recorded infections, according to an AFP tally using official sources.<\/p>\n
The United States has the highest death toll with more than 200,000 fatalities followed by Brazil, India, Mexico and Britain.<\/p>\n
With scientists still racing to find a working vaccine, governments are again forced into an uneasy balancing act: Virus controls slow the spread of the disease, but they hurt already reeling economies and businesses.<\/p>\n
The IMF earlier this year warned that the economic upheaval could cause a “crisis like no other” as the world’s GDP collapsed.<\/p>\n
Europe, hit hard by the first wave, is now facing another surge in cases, with Paris, London and Madrid all forced to introduce controls to slow cases threatening to overload hospitals.<\/p>\n
Masks and social distancing in shops, cafes and public transport are now part of everyday life in many cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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