PARIS, Aug 5 — The number of Covid-19 infections recorded worldwide passed 200 million today, an AFP count showed, as the pandemic surges around the world, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region where the Australian city of Melbourne locked down again. The highly contagious Delta variant has...
PARIS, Aug 5 — The number of Covid-19 infections recorded worldwide passed 200 million today, an AFP count showed, as the pandemic surges around the world, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region where the Australian city of Melbourne locked down again.
The country’s two largest cities received a double blow in their efforts to retain “Covid Zero” status, with a record number of new cases in Sydney and Melbourne imposing its sixth lockdown. The country also announced 160 deaths in 24 hours, as exhausted morgue workers struggle to cope with the mounting bodies.
Africa also posted a new record with the 6,400 deaths in the week to August 1 representing the continent’s most since the start of the pandemic, the World Health Organization said.
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