Just over 100,000 people worldwide have now died from COVID-19. A little more than a week ago, the global death toll was half that.
Medical staff, seen at a Paris hospital Thursday, treat a patient infected with COVID-19. The worldwide death toll connected with the disease topped 100,000 on Friday — a startling statistic that may have seemed unthinkable just several months ago.Lucas Barioulet/AFP via Getty Images
Medical staff, seen at a Paris hospital Thursday, treat a patient infected with COVID-19. The worldwide death toll connected with the disease topped 100,000 on Friday — a startling statistic that may have seemed unthinkable just several months ago.Just over a week ago, the worldwide death toll linked to the coronavirus stood at
— a staggering sum for a virus that was still largely unknown to the world at the start of the year. Now, that death toll has doubled.showed the global death toll at just over 100,000 and the number of confirmed cases worldwide at more than 1.6 million. A handful of Western European countries — particularly Italy, the United States, Spain, France and the United Kingdom — so far have felt the brunt of the disease's deadly effects, combining to make up roughly half the global death toll.
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