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The World Health Organization says that Europe and Central Asia could see another half a million deaths by February next year. SOUNDBITE from Director of WHO Europe Hans Kluge
The number of people who have died from Covid-19 around the world has passed three million, according to an AFP tally, as the number of fatalities continues to rise despite vaccination campaigns. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden will order flags on all US federal buildings to be lowered to half mast in commemoration of the imminent half million mark in the country's death toll from Covid-19, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Friends and family bury their loved ones at the Villa Formosa cemetery, the largest one in Latin America, a day after global Covid-19 deaths surged past two million. IMAGES
A coronavirus testing centre in Delhi is busy as India reported that the number of virus cases in the country had passed six million. The pandemic is raging across the vast South Asian nation, with 6.1 million infections according to the health ministry and on course to pass the United States in the coming weeks as the country with the most cases. IMAGES
Monday morning street scenes from the city of Wuhan, the original epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic, as worldwide deaths top 1 million, according to an AFP tally based on official sources at 2230 GMT Sunday. The city has largely recovered since the virus started spreading here in December 2019. IMAGES