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'This is not a game': Global virus death toll hits 2 million

In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, cemetery workers carry the remains of 89-year-old Abilio Ribeiro, who died of the coronavirus, to bury at the Nossa Senhora Aparecida
cemetery in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil.
Associated Press

By CHRIS SHERMAN, MARIA is real hope of vanquishing by Johns Hopkins University, expert and dean of Brown given some measure of
CHENG, JOHN LEICESTER the outbreak, while in oth- is about equal to the popu- University's School of Public protection with at least
and JOSHUA GOODMAN er, less-developed parts of lation of Brussels, Mecca, Health. At the same time, one dose of vaccine de-
Associated Press the world, it seems a far-off Minsk or Vienna. It is rough- he said, "our scientific com- veloped with revolutionary
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The dream. ly equivalent to the Cleve- munity has also done ex- speed and quickly author-
global death toll from The numbing figure was land metropolitan area or traordinary work." ized for use.
COVID-19 topped 2 million reached just over a year the entire state of Nebras- In wealthy countries in- But elsewhere, immuniza-
Friday, crossing the thresh- after the coronavirus was ka. cluding the United States, tion drives have barely
old amid a vaccine rollout first detected in the Chi- "There's been a terrible Britain, Israel, Canada and gotten off the ground.
so immense but so uneven nese city of Wuhan. The amount of death," said Dr. Germany, millions of citi-
that in some countries there number of dead, compiled Ashish Jha, a pandemic zens have already been Continued on Page 6