Coronavirus latest: worldwide deaths hit 300,000, as whistle-blower says US lacks vaccine plan

The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus pandemic hit 300,000 on Thursday, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University, with around 4.4 million people infected since the outbreak began in Wuhan, China late last year.The global epicentre of the pandemic has since shifted to the United States, where more than 84,000 lives have been lost to Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by the virus. Around 1.4 million cases have been confirmed in the US, far more than in any other country…

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