Researchers have reported that the number of people worldwide who have died from Covid-19 has now passed one million, with many regions still seeing surging numbers of new infections.
According to a tally by Johns Hopkins University the death toll is now 1,000,555.
The United States, Brazil and India make up nearly half of that total.
Experts caution that, because of differences in recording covid-19 deaths, the true figure is probably much higher.
The grim milestone comes nearly 10 months after news of the new coronavirus began to emerge in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
The pandemic has since spread to 188 countries with more than 32 million confirmed cases.
Jamaica has so far recorded 93 covid-19 related deaths and 6 thousand 170 cases o the respiratory illness.
Lockdowns and other measures to try to stop the virus spreading have thrown many economies into recession.
Vaccine
Efforts to develop an effective vaccine for the virus are continuing - although the World Health Organization has warned that the death toll could hit two million before one is widely available.
The US has the world's highest death toll with about 205,000 fatalities, followed by Brazil - 141,700 - and India with 95,500 deaths.
The US has recorded more than seven million cases - more than a fifth of the world's total.
After a second wave of cases in July, numbers dropped in August but appear to be on the rise again.
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