Global coronavirus death toll exceeds one million

The global death toll from COVID-19 has crossed one million, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, but the World Health Organization (WHO) says the actual toll is likely to be much higher.
Some 1,000,555 people across the world have now died from the virus, the JHU data showed on Tuesday.
COVID-19 was first reported in the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year when doctors began noticing a mysterious new form of pneumonia. Despite border closures and quarantines, the virus spread across the world and the WHO declared the outbreak a pandemic in March.
The United States has reported the most deaths – 205,031 – followed by Brazil, India, Mexico and the United Kingdom.
The death toll is likely to grow further as the outbreak continues to accelerate in many countries around the world including the US.
The number of new COVID-19 cases there has risen for two weeks in a row in 27 of the country’s 50 states, and the 316,000 recorded in the seven days ended September 27 was the highest in six weeks, according to a Reuters analysis of state and county data.
The nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr Anthony Fauci, told ABC News the country was “not in a good place”.
“There are states that are starting to show (an) uptick in cases and even some increases in hospitalisations in some states. And, I hope not, but we very well might start seeing increases in deaths.”