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Global Coronavirus Infections Reach 104M with 2.2M Deaths

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   The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center reported early Friday
   that there are more than 104 million global GOVID-19 cases and 2.2
   million deaths from the virus.

   The United States remains at the top of the list as the location with
   the most infections, with more than 26 million cases, followed by India
   with 10.8 million and Brazil with 9.3 million.

   Medical officials are urging U.S. residents to not turn Sunday's Super
   Bowl, a yearly football game, into a superspreader event. Fans usually
   gather at large home parties or in bars and restaurants to watch the
   game on television. Medical authorities this year, however, are urging
   football fans to watch the game "with the people you live with."

   Some areas in the United States are running into difficulty ensuring
   that their residents are being inoculated equitably. The nation's
   capital is no exception. Residents in some of the Washington's poorest
   neighborhoods have been underrepresented in the city's vaccination
   drive. Now, however, representatives from the mayor's office have begun
   knocking on the front doors of senior citizens' homes in Washington's
   poorest neighborhoods in an effort to get them to sign up for the
   vaccines.

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