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Images show closed Covid booths in Beijing as cases surge in the Chinese capital. The country is navigating a rapid turn away from its zero-tolerance coronavirus strategy, unwinding years of hardline restrictions. IMAGES
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
Residents of Pretoria get vaccinated against Covid-19, as South Africa struggles with a third wave of infections. The country, the worst affected by the pandemic in Africa, has seen the daily figures for new cases double over the past two weeks, while hospital admissions have climbed by nearly 60 percent over the same period. IMAGES
Kathmandu May 7 (EFE/EPA).- Nepal is staring at a looming health crisis with record numbers of around 9,000 daily infections as fear grows over a Covid-19 spillover from the neighboring India, which is battling a devastating second wave of the virus.Hundreds of thousands of Nepalese work as seasoned laborers in India, where a rapidly-spreading strain of the virus is partially blamed for the steep rise in widespread infections and deaths.According to officials, thousands of migrant laborers have fled the second-worst affected nation and returned home, possibly infected. (Camera: NARENDRA SHRESTHA).B-ROLL OF THE CITY OF KATHMANDU, NEPAL.
Images from a Hindu cremation ground in Kathmandu as Nepal witnesses an upsurge in Covid-19 cases and deaths. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has called for "urgent" international action to prevent "a worsening human catastrophe" across South Asia. It highlighted the case of Nepal where it said "many hospitals are full and overflowing" with Covid-19 patients and that the daily caseload is 57 times higher than one month ago. IMAGES
400 people over 65 years old are vaccinated against Covid-19 with the CoronaVac and AstraZeneca vaccines in Rio a day after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro overhauled his government, changing six cabinet members including the foreign, defense and justice ministers, as the far-right leader faced mounting pressure over a deadly virus surge. IMAGES
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