Photos: Global Covid-19 deaths hit 4 million amid rush to vaccinate

AP | By HT Correspondent

Published on Jul 08, 2021 04:20 pm IST

Over 4 million people have lost their lives to Covid-19. The tally of lives lost over the past year and a half, as compiled from official sources by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the number of people killed in battle in all of the world's wars since 1982, according to estimates from the Peace Research Institute Oslo.

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A woman breaks down as she prays before the cremation of a relative who died of Covid-19 in Gauhati, India on July 2. The global death toll from Covid-19 eclipsed 4 million July 7 as the crisis increasingly becomes a race between the vaccine and the highly contagious delta variant, AP reported.(Anupam Nath / AP)

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A woman breaks down as she prays before the cremation of a relative who died of Covid-19 in Gauhati, India on July 2. The global death toll from Covid-19 eclipsed 4 million July 7 as the crisis increasingly becomes a race between the vaccine and the highly contagious delta variant, AP reported.(Anupam Nath / AP)

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A medical worker (R), helps a coronavirus patient (L), to sit up in the Covid-19 intensive care unit at Kenyatta National Hospital, in Nairobi, Kenya on April 14. With the advent of the vaccine, deaths per day have plummeted to around 7,900, after topping out at over 18,000 a day in January.(Brian Inganga / AP)

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A medical worker (R), helps a coronavirus patient (L), to sit up in the Covid-19 intensive care unit at Kenyatta National Hospital, in Nairobi, Kenya on April 14. With the advent of the vaccine, deaths per day have plummeted to around 7,900, after topping out at over 18,000 a day in January.(Brian Inganga / AP)

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Cemetery workers carrying a coffin at the Inhauma cemetery in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on June 18. The Covid-19 toll is three times the number of people killed in traffic accidents around the globe every year. It is about equal to the population of Los Angeles or the nation of Georgia. It is equivalent to more than half of Hong Kong or close to 50% of New York City.(Bruna Prado / AP)

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Cemetery workers carrying a coffin at the Inhauma cemetery in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on June 18. The Covid-19 toll is three times the number of people killed in traffic accidents around the globe every year. It is about equal to the population of Los Angeles or the nation of Georgia. It is equivalent to more than half of Hong Kong or close to 50% of New York City.(Bruna Prado / AP)

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Nurses from the nearby St Thomas' hospital sit atop the National Covid Memorial Wall in London, England on April 27. The figure is widely believed to be an undercount because of overlooked cases or deliberate concealment, AP reported.(Frank Augustein / AP)

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Nurses from the nearby St Thomas' hospital sit atop the National Covid Memorial Wall in London, England on April 27. The figure is widely believed to be an undercount because of overlooked cases or deliberate concealment, AP reported.(Frank Augustein / AP)

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Bodies of people who died of symptoms related to Covid-19 lie at Honorio Delgado Hospital in Arequipa, Peru on June 24. In recent weeks, the mutant delta version of the virus first identified in India has set off alarms around the world, spreading rapidly even in vaccination success stories like the US, Britain and Israel.(Guadalupe Pardo / AP)

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Bodies of people who died of symptoms related to Covid-19 lie at Honorio Delgado Hospital in Arequipa, Peru on June 24. In recent weeks, the mutant delta version of the virus first identified in India has set off alarms around the world, spreading rapidly even in vaccination success stories like the US, Britain and Israel.(Guadalupe Pardo / AP)

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A worker in personal protective equipment sanitizes a street in the wake of a spike in the number of positive coronavirus cases, in downtown Guatemala City on July 1. At the same time, the disaster has exposed the gap between the haves and the have-nots, with vaccination drives barely getting started in Africa and other desperately poor corners of the world because of extreme shortages of shots.(Moises Castilo / AP)

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A worker in personal protective equipment sanitizes a street in the wake of a spike in the number of positive coronavirus cases, in downtown Guatemala City on July 1. At the same time, the disaster has exposed the gap between the haves and the have-nots, with vaccination drives barely getting started in Africa and other desperately poor corners of the world because of extreme shortages of shots.(Moises Castilo / AP)

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Medical staff transporting a Covid-19 patient at the Honorio Delgado Hospital in Arequipa, Peru on June 25. it’s taken just 82 days for the latest million deaths, compared to 92 days for the previous million, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.(Guadalupe Pardo / AP)

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Medical staff transporting a Covid-19 patient at the Honorio Delgado Hospital in Arequipa, Peru on June 25. it’s taken just 82 days for the latest million deaths, compared to 92 days for the previous million, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.(Guadalupe Pardo / AP)

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Heather Haworth (L), holds the hand of her 12-year-old son Jeremy as he receives the first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in Santa Ana, California on May 13. The variants, uneven access to vaccines and the relaxation of precautions in wealthier countries are “a toxic combination that is very dangerous,” warned Ann Lindstrand, a top immunization official at the World Health Organization.(Jae C. Hong / AP)

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Heather Haworth (L), holds the hand of her 12-year-old son Jeremy as he receives the first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in Santa Ana, California on May 13. The variants, uneven access to vaccines and the relaxation of precautions in wealthier countries are “a toxic combination that is very dangerous,” warned Ann Lindstrand, a top immunization official at the World Health Organization.(Jae C. Hong / AP)

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Exhausted workers, who bring dead bodies for cremation, sit on the rear step of an ambulance inside a crematorium, in New Delhi on April 24. Instead of treating the crisis as a “me-and-myself-and-my-country” problem, Linsatrand said, “we need to get serious that this is a worldwide problem that needs worldwide solutions.”(Altaf Qadri / AP)

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Exhausted workers, who bring dead bodies for cremation, sit on the rear step of an ambulance inside a crematorium, in New Delhi on April 24. Instead of treating the crisis as a “me-and-myself-and-my-country” problem, Linsatrand said, “we need to get serious that this is a worldwide problem that needs worldwide solutions.”(Altaf Qadri / AP)

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A man falls to the ground as he weeps during the burial of a relative who died of Covid-19, at the Rorotan Cemetery in Jakarta, Indonesia on July 7. The US has the world's highest reported death toll, at over 600,000, or nearly 1 in 7 deaths, followed by Brazil at more than 520,000. India has recorded more than 405,000 deaths so far.(Tatan Syuflana / AP)

Published on Jul 08, 2021 04:20 pm IST

A man falls to the ground as he weeps during the burial of a relative who died of Covid-19, at the Rorotan Cemetery in Jakarta, Indonesia on July 7. The US has the world's highest reported death toll, at over 600,000, or nearly 1 in 7 deaths, followed by Brazil at more than 520,000. India has recorded more than 405,000 deaths so far.(Tatan Syuflana / AP)

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