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Covid-19 compared with other dealy viruses
6 years agoA resident waits as a health worker checks forms before receiving a coronavirus disease Covid-19 vaccine aboard a Venice public waterbus "Vaporetto" during a vaccination campaign for elderly residents, on April 5, 2021. - The one-day-only vaccination hub is designed for residents 80 year old and up of two islands in the Venetian Lagoon, Sant'Erasmo and Le Vignole. (Photo by ANDREA PATTARO / AFP)
The global death toll from Covid-19 passed three million on Saturday, with the pandemic already having killed more people than most other viral epidemics of the 20th and 21st centuries.