Gravediggers carrying the coffin of a COVID-19 victim during a burial at Vila Formosa cemetery in São Paulo on May 8, 2021. The world’s known coronavirus death toll passed four million on Thursday, July 8, 2021, a loss roughly equivalent to the population of Los Angeles, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
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