And that is widely believed to be an undercount because of overlooked cases or deliberate concealment.
The global death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed 4 million Wednesday as the crisis increasingly becomes a race between the vaccine and the highly contagious delta variant.
Even then, it is widely believed to be an undercount because of overlooked cases or deliberate concealment. Britain, in fact, recorded a one-day total this week of more than 30,000 new infections for the first time since January, even as the government prepares to lift all remaining lockdown restrictions in England later this month.
The U.S. and other wealthy countries have agreed to share at least 1 billion doses with struggling countries.
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