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#BREAKING Daily record of more than 893,000 Covid cases worldwide, mainly due to India surge: AFP count

#UPDATE A daily record of more than 893,000 #COVID19 cases has been recorded worldwide, mainly due to a surge of the virus in #India, according to an AFP count on Saturday u.afp.com/UPZ2

VIDEO: 🇮🇳 An overcrowded Covid-19 ward in a #NewDelhi 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 hit a new record of 2,624 as the government battles to get oxygen to hospitals

#UPDATE A new global daily record of coronavirus cases was reached Saturday due mainly to a surge in the virus in #India, but Covid jabs also approached one billion globally, offering hope after months of pandemic misery u.afp.com/UPZt

#BREAKING One billion Covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered globally: AFP tally

Huge crowds protested in London against Britain's remaining coronavirus restrictions, the mandatory use of masks and the possible introduction of so-called Covid-19 vaccine passports

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#UPDATE More than one billion Covid-19 vaccines have been administered worldwide less than five months after the first mass inoculation programmes began, with 58 percent given in three countries: the United States, China and India #coronavirus u.afp.com/UPop

April has become the deadliest month yet of the Covid-19 epidemic in Brazil, Latin America's most populous country, with the highest death rate per 100,000 people in both the Americas and the southern hemisphere #coronavirus

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