Gayle Smith, CEO and President of the ONE Campaign, said: “This milestone is far more than a simple statistic. It represents a million separate tragedies – a million lives cut short and a million families left to cope. People all over the world are united in grief, but despite our facing a shared enemy, our leaders are still dangerously slow to unite behind a plan to beat it. Governments must do better, including by ensuring that vaccines and therapeutics are available to all and by countering the devastating impact of the pandemic on the world’s most vulnerable countries and communities.”