World coronavirus dispatch: Tally of global cases goes past 2 million

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What began as a mysterious pneumonia-like illness in China’s Wuhan late last year has morphed itself into a global health crisis. In a grim milestone, the number of Covid-19 infections globally has gone past 2 million – more than 600,000 of them in the US alone. While the virus had taken about four months to infect the first 1 million people, it took only 12 days to double the tally to 2 million.

Let’s look at the global statistics:

Total confirmed cases: 2,000,984

Change over previous day: 66,401

Total deaths: 128,071

Total recovered: 3,120, 381

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