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Coronavirus Global Death Tally Approaches 1 Million

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   The World Health organization says 120 million rapid diagnostic tests
   for the coronavirus will be made available to low- and middle-income
   countries as the world approaches a death toll of 1 million.

   WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference
   in Geneva on Monday that the tests would cost less than $5.

   He said manufacturers Abbott and SD Biosensor are working in
   partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to "make 120
   million of these new, highly portable and easy-to-use rapid COVID-19
   diagnostic tests available over a period of six months."

   COVID-19 is the disease caused by the coronavirus.

   The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center reported Monday that
   there were close to 1 million deaths worldwide. It said there are more
   than 33 million infections around the globe.

   In India, the country's confirmed coronavirus infection tally reached 6
   million Monday, behind only the United States, where infections passed
   7 million last week.

   India's Health Ministry on Monday reported 82,170 new coronavirus cases
   over a 24-hour period, as well as 1,039 new confirmed deaths, taking
   total fatalities in the country to 95,542.

   Surge expected in US

   In the United States, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for
   Disease Control and Prevention, told NBC, "We're nowhere near the end"
   of the coronavirus pandemic.

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