Worldwide coronavirus death toll passes two million threshold

The university, based in Baltimore in the US state of Maryland, says that more than 93 million people worldwide have been infected by the Covid-19 virus.

A bulldozer moves earth over a coffin in Manaus, Brazil (Edmar Barros/AP)

Two million people have now died worldwide with coronavirus, figures show.

The tally by the Johns Hopkins University passed the threshold on Friday, showing a new figure of 2,000,905.