Global Coronavirus Deaths Surpass , Grim Milestone of 2 Million People.<br />The milestone comes just a year <br />after the virus was first identified <br />in Wuhan, China.<br />For context, the number is greater <br />than the entire population of Nebraska.<br />More than 400,000 of the <br />two million deaths have occurred in the U.S.<br />It took nine months for the coronavirus death toll to <br />reach one million, and just over three months for the <br />virus to claim the lives of another one million people.<br />Adding to the direness of the situation,<br />several strains of the virus <br />are now spreading more rapidly.<br />New cases in the U.S. alone have reached a staggering <br />daily average of more than 240,000.<br />Officially, more than 100 million people have contracted the <br />virus worldwide. The actual number is likely much greater
