Covid-19 is highly likely to kill more than two million people without relentless global action to combat the disease, the World Health Organization has warned.
It comes as the United States crossed seven million confirmed coronavirus cases, according to a running tally by Johns Hopkins University.
It also said 203,240 people have died from Covid-19 in the US, which is a global high. The novel coronavirus has killed at least 984,000 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP.
The WHO said today that the prospect of another million deaths was not unimaginable if countries and individuals do not come together to tackle the crisis. "One million is a terrible number and