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People queue outside a Covid-19 test center as Germany hits a record 100,000 daily Covid-19 cases. Germany's daily toll of new Covid-19 cases has topped 100,000 for the first time, according to data from the country's public health agency. IMAGES
South Korea ramps up coronavirus checking efforts at its 150 temporary testing stations erected nationwide this week amid a surge in cases. The country reported over 1,000 cases on Wednesday, having earlier broken its daily case record with 1,030 cases on Sunday. IMAGES
The streets are quiet on Sunday in Shanghai as China reports 13,146 Covid cases, the highest since the peak of the first wave more than two years ago. IMAGES
WHO Europe director Hans Kluge warns of another 236,000 Covid-19 deaths in Europe by December 1, saying that "several countries" are observing an "increased burden on hospitals". SOUNDBITE
A Covid-19 patient in their sixties has been transferred to Marseille from Corsica by military helicopter, after hospital occupancy in Bastia, one of the island's two main cities, passed 79 percent on Tuesday. IMAGES
Images of a hospital where coronavirus patients are being treated in Kommunarkab, outside the Russian capital, as Moscow registers 9,056 new coronavirus infections in 24 hours, a record since the start of the pandemic. New variants of Covid-19 are suspected of causing a sudden jump in the number of cases in the Russian capital, the mayor said, amid a sluggish vaccination drive. IMAGES