Global Covid deaths surpass 4 million as Delta variant spreads | In Pics

The global death toll from Covid-19 has eclipsed 4 million as the crisis increasingly becomes a race between the vaccine and the highly contagious delta variant.

In this file photo, a woman breaks down as she prays before the cremation of a relative who died of Covid-19 in Guwahati.

The US has the world’s highest reported death toll, at over 600,000, or nearly 1 in 7 deaths, followed by Brazil at more than 520,000, though the real numbers are believed to be much higher in Brazil, where President Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right government has long downplayed the virus.

A worker in personal protective equipment sanitises a street in the wake of a spike in the number of positive coronavirus cases, in downtown Guatemala City.

in recent weeks, the mutant delta version of the virus first identified in India has set off alarms around the world, spreading rapidly even in vaccination success stories like the US, Britain and Israel.

A man in Jakarta mourns the death of a relative who died of Covid-19.

Britain, in fact, recorded a one-day total this week of more than 30,000 new infections for the first time since January, even as the government prepares to lift all remaining lockdown restrictions in England later this month.