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Quito, Apr 28 (EFE) .- The number of deaths by COVID-19 rose to 871 after 208 new cases were registered in the last 24 hours in Ecuador.(CAMERA: Juan Francisco Chávez and some footage courtesy of the Presidency of Ecuador)
Madrid's large ice rink, the Palacio de Hielo, has been converted into a morgue where the bodies of victims of the novel coronavirus recovered from hospitals and nursing homes are stored. This makeshift morgue was set up to help the municipal funeral home, which was unable to collect the bodies due to a lack of protective equipment for its staff. IMAGES
Bangalore / New Delhi, Jul 20 (EFE/EPA).- The official Covid-19 death toll in India stood at around 400,000 at the end of June 2021 but the reality could be “catastrophically worse,” with estimates of excess deaths in the Asian country during the pandemic being as high as 4 million according to a new research published Tuesday.Excess mortality is an estimation of the number of deaths from all causes during a crisis that are above normal levels.Earlier this year, India was overwhelmed by a huge second wave of Covid-19, which pushed the country’s hospitals to the brink amid a shortage of oxygen and medical supplies. (Camera: ARCHIVE).ARCHIVE FOOTAGE OF THE FUNERAL OF THE COVID-19 VICTIMS IN BANGALORE AND NEW DELHI, INDIA.
Panama City, Jul 15 (EFE).- The COVID-19 death toll in Panama decreased in recent weeks thanks to the advance in COVID-19 vaccination drive, the Health Minister Luis Francisco Sucre told EFE on Thursday."The first objective" of the national immunization plan that began on Jan. 20 "was to avoid deaths, and that is what we are accomplishing," Sucre said.Panama has recorded a total of 6,661 deaths since the beginning of pandemic. (Camera: CARLOS LEMOS).SHOT LIST: HEALTH AUTHORITIES GIVE A DOSE OF COVID-19 VACCINE TO CITIZENS IN PANAMA CITY, PANAMA.
Bangalore, Jun 1 (EFE/EPA).- India recorded Tuesday 2,795 coronavirus deaths in the last 24 hours, marking the first time in 34 days that daily fatalities dropped below 3,000, according to official data.As per health ministry records, the pandemic has claimed the lives of more than 331,100 people in the South Asian country, a number that is only behind that of the United States and Brazil.The decline in the number of deaths per day, even as experts warn that the actual figures could be much higher, contrasts with the more than 4,000 deaths recorded around the middle of May. (Camera: JAGADEESH NV).SHOT LIST: HEALTH AUTHORITIES INOCULATE CITIZENS WITH COVID-19 VACCINE AND COLLECT SWAB SAMPLES TO TEST FOR COVID-19 IN BANGALORE, INDIA.
Sao Paulo, Apr 7 (EFE).- Brazil continues to set grim records for the impact of coronavirus, with 4,195 deaths in the latest 24-hour period, and President Jair Bolsonaro's response has been to shift from denying the seriousness of Covid-19 to labeling it on Wednesday as "practically impossible" to eradicate.(CAMERA: JANAINA QUINET)
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