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Thousands crowd the beach in the English coastal town of Bournemouth to soak up the sun on the hottest day of the year as lockdown measures are slowly eased -- but with officials still warning of another surge in COVID-19 cases. IMAGES
The south-western third of France is sizzling amid a record heatwave. In Bordeaux, where the thermometer edges towards the 40 degree mark, locals take refuge in the shade of trees and cool off at fountains. IMAGES
French health minister, Brigitte Bourguignon, visits the residents of a nursing home in Poitiers, as France's record pre-summer heatwave spreads across the country. IMAGES
More than 6,400 deaths were recorded in Africa from Covid-19 for the week ending August 1, according to the World Health Organization, a new weekly death toll record. SOUNDBITE
Images show an overcrowded Covid-19 ward inside a New Delhi hospital where two or three patients share a single bed, with barely enough space for others to stand. India's daily coronavirus death toll has set a new record and the government is battling to get oxygen to hospitals overwhelmed by the hundreds of thousands of new daily cases. IMAGES
Images from a graveyard for Covid victims in Delhi as India's brutal new coronavirus outbreak set records on Wednesday with more than 2,000 deaths in 24 hours as hospitals in New Delhi ran perilously low on oxygen. IMAGES