Paris, Jan 8, 2025 (AFP) - Forgotten but not gone: Covid keeps killing, five years on

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2025-01-08

Five years since Covid-19 started upending the world, the virus is still infecting and killing people across the globe -- though at far lower levels than at the height of the pandemic. Here is the current state of the play. Around 777 million Covid cases and more than seven million deaths have been officially recorded since the first infections emerged in December 2019, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). However, the true toll is......

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