With the pandemic now going into its third year, the worldwide COVID-19 death toll has topped six million.
The latest figure comes from the team behind the Center for Systems Science and Engineering atJohns Hopkins University, with a subsequent report from the Associated Press highlighting that remote Pacific islands are now seeing “outbreaks and deaths” after previously being protected from such spikes.
COVID-19 cases are surging as the Delta variant takes over as the dominant strain, with unvaccinated individuals getting hit the hardest.
The Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics are set to kick off later this month, but it’s set to look different than in any year prior.
The White House has announced it is supporting waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines in an effort to expand access to vaccines worldwide.
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