NEW YORK, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) - Global COVID-19 deaths surpassed 900,000 on Wednesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.  

People wearing face masks and sitting observing social distancing among the 12 attendees as part of sanitary measures over the Covid-19 (novel coronavirus) pandemic, attend a literary evening in Zagreb on September 9, 2020. (Photo: AFP)