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COVID-19 Deaths Top 1 Million Worldwide. How These 5 Nations Are Driving The Pandemic

Nine months after the first reported fatality in China last January, the world has hit a sobering milestone.
Relatives at a mass burial of pandemic victims at the Parque Taruma cemetery in Manaus, Brazil, mourn a family member.

The coronavirus pandemic has now killed at least 1 million people worldwide. That's according to a tally . This sobering milestone was reached just nine months after the first reported fatality in China last January. And public health experts believe the actual toll – the recorded deaths plus the unrecorded deaths – . What's more, in the five worst-off countries, the trend line remains

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