Wednesday, 7th July 2021: The world on Wednesday passed the “tragic milestone” of four million recorded Covid-19 deaths, the World Health Organisation, (WHO), said, adding that the true toll was likely higher.

“The world is at a perilous point in this pandemic. We have just passed the tragic milestone of four million recorded Covid-19 deaths, which likely underestimates the overall toll,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference.

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