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Added on the 01/06/2021 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
The iconic Sugarloaf Mountain, one of Rio de Janeiro's main tourist attraction, is closed as an emergency measure to stop the spread of COVID-19. IMAGES
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
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 director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Carissa Etienne, reports that there has been nearly a 30 percent increase in Covid-19 cases from October to November in the Americas, where six million new cases were reported last month. SOUNDBITE