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Exactly one year ago, weeks after the first reports of a new, mysterious deadly virus surfaced in China, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic.
Since then, the crisis has upended lives and livelihoods the world over.
On March 11, 2020, when WHO sounded that alarm, there were 125,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, and under 5,000 reported deaths.
Today, at least 118 million people have been infected, and according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University, more than 2.6 million people have died.
From China to Europe, the Americas and Africa, the coronavirus raced across the globe, prompting governments to take unprecedented measures to try to stop its spread.