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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5458/A.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Worldwide Pandemic Death Toll Passes 6 Million' data-article-id='6048'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='7813'>The official number of worldwide deaths from COVID-19 passed 6 million on Monday. </span> <span data-start-time='7813' data-end-time='14708'>The number shows how the pandemic, now in its third year, is far from over.</span> <span data-start-time='14708' data-end-time='22417'>The Coronavirus Resource Center at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland recorded the total.</span> <span data-start-time='22417' data-end-time='32313'>The virus continues to kill large numbers of people, even as people stop wearing face coverings and begin to travel more freely.</span> <span data-start-time='32313' data-end-time='38521'>Small Pacific islands are experiencing their first large spread of the virus. </span> <span data-start-time='38521' data-end-time='45208'>The isolation of such nations had protected them for more than two years.</span> <span data-start-time='45208' data-end-time='50271'>Hong Kong is also seeing deaths quickly rise. </span> <span data-start-time='50271' data-end-time='57500'>It is testing its entire population of 7.5 million three times this month.</span> <span data-start-time='57500' data-end-time='65563'>Death rates remain high in Poland, Hungary, Romania and other Eastern European countries. </span> <span data-start-time='65563' data-end-time='73854'>The area has also seen more than 1.5 million refugees recently arrive from Ukraine. </span> <span data-start-time='73854' data-end-time='80750'>Ukraine has had poor vaccination rates and high rates of cases and deaths.</span> <span data-start-time='80750' data-end-time='89958'>The United States has recorded nearly 1 million deaths, even with the country’s high vaccine availability and wealth. </span> <span data-start-time='89958' data-end-time='94542'>The U.S. has the highest official death toll in the world. </span> <span data-start-time='94542' data-end-time='99500'>Case numbers in the U.S. have been dropping over the last month.</span> <span data-start-time='99500' data-end-time='108354'>Death rates worldwide are still highest among people who are not vaccinated against the virus, said Tikki Pang. </span> <span data-start-time='108354' data-end-time='117208'>He is a professor at the National University of Singapore’s medical school and former researcher with the World Health Organization.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' 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data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5458/which_country_has_the_highest_official_covid_death_toll_in_the_world.wav'>Which country has the highest official COVID death toll in the world?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='The United States'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5458/the_united_states.wav'><span>The United States</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5458/canada.wav'><span>Canada</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5458/brazil.wav'><span>Brazil</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5458/germany.wav'><span>Germany</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=18448 data-hint-location='99500' style='display:none;'><div 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