Global coronavirus deaths hit one million

The number of deaths from coronavirus globally has crossed the million threshold, with more than 1,000,502 deaths recorded as of Sunday evening, according to worldometer.info.

That includes over 209,000 deaths in the United States, which has lost more people to Covid-19 than any other country, and more than twice as India, the next most impacted country with about 95,000 dead.

The total coronavirus infections globally has also crossed 33 million with the 33,192,997 cases reported as of Sunday evening, according to the worldometer.info data.

Worst still, health experts say there are likely far more cases out there that have not been confirmed

On Saturday morning, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned that the global coronavirus death toll could hit two million before an effective vaccine is widely used.