The world has passed the grim threshold of 4.5 million Covid-19 deaths, according to an AFP tally, as the virulent Delta variant wreaks havoc globally.
Since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, the virus has killed a total of 4,500,620 people, the tally of official sources revealed.
Some 10,000 deaths are reported every day in the world, a much lower figure than the highs of January when an average of 14,800 people were being killed daily.
With an average of 1,290 deaths per day over the past week, the United States has once again become the country with the most new fatalities in the world.
