* The global coronavirus case count surpassed 100 million on Tuesday afternoon
* More than 2.1 million people have died of COVID-19 across the globe
* The first reported case was just over a year ago, in China, on December 31, 2019
* Wuhan, where the virus emerged and which became the initial epicenter of the pandemic, is now almost completely back to normal
* Meanwhile the US is the worst hit country in the world, accounting for more than a quarter of all global cases and over 423,000 deaths
* The UK is just behind with 3.7 million cases and more than 100,000 deaths
* Health officials the world over promised that vaccines would bring the pandemic to a halt
* But the rollout is slow-moving with 68.1 million doses administered worldwide, and new more infectious variants threatening to makes shots less effective
A staggering 100 million people around the world have been infected with coronavirus, a grim Johns Hopkins University tally shows.
The virus that didn't exist two years ago spread to just shy of 13 percent of the global population in just over a year. COVID-19 has claimed the lives of 2.1 million people, leaving economies in shreds and hardly a family untouched.
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