The global death count from the novel coronavirus, which emerged less than a year ago in China and has swept across the world, passed one million on Sunday. By Sunday 10.30 pm, the disease had claimed 10,00,009 victims from 33,018,877 recorded infections, according to an AFP tally using official sources.

The US has the highest death count with more than 2,00,000 fatalities followed by Brazil, India, Mexico and Britain. The pandemic has ravaged the global economy, inflamed geopolitical tensions and upended lives, from Indian slums and Brazil's jungles to America's biggest city New York.