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Newshour: 17/04/2021 20:06 GMT: Global coronavirus death toll passes 3 million

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17/04/2021 20:06 GMT

17/04/2021 20:06 GMT: Global coronavirus death toll passes 3 million

Global coronavirus death toll passes 3 million

BBC World Service - Newshour, Global coronavirus death toll passes 3 million

More than 100 million people have been infected according to Johns Hopkins University

More than 100 million people have been infected according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University

The pandemic continues to ravage populations around the world as more variants appear and spread quickly. Ontario, in Canada, registered a record 4,812 new infections while India's Kumbh festival attracts big crowds amid devastating second Covid wave. 

Also on the programme: the last goodbye to the Duke of Edinburgh as his funeral takes place in Windsor Castle; and NASA chooses Elon Musk's company SpaceX to build a spacecraft that they hope will return humans to the Moon this decade. 

(Photo: A woman undergoes a free COVID-19 nasal swab test for at-risk people in a bid to curb the rapid spreading of the pandemic. Credit: EPA).

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