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Flowers are seen on the grave of a person who passed away due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Parque Taruma cemetery in Manaus, Brazil May 20, 2021. Picture taken May 20, 2021. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly
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Covid-19 deaths in Latin America surpass 1 mln as outbreak worsens

On average in May, 31% of the Covid-19 deaths in the world have been in Latin America and the Caribbean - home to just 8.4% of the global population

A health worker administers the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination centre in Naples, Italy, January 8, 2021. REUTERS/Ciro De Luca
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Italian study shows Covid-19 infections, deaths plummeting after jabs

A frontline worker ignites a funeral pyre of a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient who passed away after a hospital caught fire, in Virar, on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, April 23, 2021. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas
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India may see 1.02m Covid deaths by August 1: US-based body

Volunteers of Shesh Bidayer Bondhu have been providing burial services to Covid-19 victims free as even graveyard authorities often refuse to bury them. Photo: Courtesy
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The last companions of Covid victims

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Covid-19 in Bangladesh

148 doctors succumb to Covid-19: BMA

Health workers carry the body of a man who died due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) for his cremation at a crematorium in New Delhi, India, June 4, 2020. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo
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India's crematoriums, graveyards struggle to keep up as Covid deaths rise

A patient who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is transported to the morgue at a field hospital set up at Dell'Antonia sports gym in Santo Andre, on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil April 7, 2021. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
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Chinese vaccine found 50.7% effective against variant in Brazil

Health workers carry the body of a man who died due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) for his cremation at a crematorium in New Delhi, India, June 4, 2020. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo
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Global Covid-19 death toll surpasses 3 million amid new infections resurgence

Cemetery workers and relatives carry the coffin of a woman, who died of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), during her funeral at the Municipal cemetery in Nezahualcoyotl, on the outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico, January 27, 2021. REUTERS/Henry Romero
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Mexico says Covid-19 deaths likely 60% higher than confirmed toll

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India reports most Covid-19 deaths since early January as second virus surge grips

Tanzania's President elect John Pombe Magufuli addresses members of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi Party (CCM) at the party's sub-head office on Lumumba road in Dar es Salaam, October 30, 2015. REUTERSSadi SaidFile Photo
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Tanzania's President John Magufuli and Covid-19 sceptic dies at 61

Covid-19 cases crosses 5.50 lakh in one year
Covid-19 in Bangladesh

Covid-19 cases crosses 5.50 lakh in one year

Health workers carry the body of a man who died due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) for his cremation at a crematorium in New Delhi, India, June 4, 2020. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo
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Covid-19 lethality worldwide decreases by 20% in one week