Covid-19 Retreats in the West, but the Pandemic Fight Is Far From Over

Already this year, more than 1.4 million Covid-19 deaths have been reported globally as the virus has torn through Latin America and swaths of Asia, according to official tallies compiled at the University of Oxford.

With global recorded deaths rising by about 13,000 daily, the virus’s toll looks set within weeks to surpass the 1.8 million deaths recorded for the whole of 2020.

It reported more than 400,000 new daily cases on Thursday for the second time in a week, according to government data, bringing the total to more than 21 million.