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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
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
People take Covid-19 swab tests in New Delhi as India posts a global one-day record of almost 315,000 new Covid infections. IMAGES
Ambulances bring patients to the Royal Hospital London, as hospitals across the UK struggle to face a surge in coronavirus cases. The country has registered its record daily death toll with 1,564 deaths. IMAGES
Sun rises in Wuhan, the Chinese city where Covid-19 was first detected, a year after China confirming its first death from the virus. Nearly two million deaths later, the pandemic is out of control across much of the world, leaving tens of millions ill, a pulverised global economy and recriminations flying between nations. IMAGES