Global Coronavirus Deaths Surpass , Grim Milestone of 2 Million People.
The milestone comes just a year
after the virus was first identified
in Wuhan, China.
For context, the number is greater
than the entire population of Nebraska.
More than 400,000 of the
two million deaths have occurred in the U.S.
It took nine months for the coronavirus death toll to
reach one million, and just over three months for the
virus to claim the lives of another one million people.
Adding to the direness of the situation,
several strains of the virus
are now spreading more rapidly.
New cases in the U.S. alone have reached a staggering
daily average of more than 240,000.
Officially, more than 100 million people have contracted the
virus worldwide. The actual number is likely much greater