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People wearing face masks and gloves wait outside the Gouverneur Health Center in Manhattan’s Lower East Side to be tested for the novel coronavirus. Healthcare workers wearing PPE assess those waiting in line. The walk-in facility opened last Friday and operates six days a week. The virus has claimed more than 17,300 lives in the state of New York alone. IMAGES
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
Images show the Ramada Hotel in Schiphol, Netherlands where Europe's highest number of people so far with the Omicron strain of Covid-19 are being kept in isolation. IMAGES
Scientists in South Africa say they have detected a new Covid-19 variant with multiple mutations, blaming it for a surge in infection numbers. The variant, which goes by the scientific lineage number B.1.1.529, "has a very high number of mutations". SOUNDBITE
Tens of members of a Guarani community receive their first Covid-19 vaccines in Marica, Rio de Janeiro state, after Brazil rolled out a nationwide vaccination campaign Monday. IMAGES
The English variant, presumably more contagious, accounts for about 1% of positive Covid-19 tests in France, according to the preliminary results of a survey conducted over two days last week, says French's Health Minister Olivier Véran. SOUNDBITE