Worldwide Covid-19 death toll tops three million

The true number is believed to be even higher

A coffin is placed into a niche by cemetery workers at the Inahuma cemetery in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Picture: Silvia Izquierdo/AP

The global death toll from coronavirus topped three million on Saturday, amid repeated setbacks in the worldwide vaccination campaign and a deepening crisis in places such as Brazil, India and France.

The number of lives lost, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the population of Kyiv, Ukraine; Caracas, Venezuela; or metropolitan Lisbon, Portugal.