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A frontline worker ignites a funeral pyre of a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient who passed away after a hospital caught fire, in Virar, on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, April 23, 2021. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas
Coronavirus chronicle

India may see 1.02m Covid deaths by August 1: US-based body

US national security adviser Jake Sullivan has said the pandemic is “raging out of control” in India

Volunteers of Shesh Bidayer Bondhu have been providing burial services to Covid-19 victims free as even graveyard authorities often refuse to bury them. Photo: Courtesy
Covid-19 in Bangladesh

The last companions of Covid victims

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Covid-19 in Bangladesh

148 doctors succumb to Covid-19: BMA

Health workers carry the body of a man who died due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) for his cremation at a crematorium in New Delhi, India, June 4, 2020. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo
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India's crematoriums, graveyards struggle to keep up as Covid deaths rise

A patient who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is transported to the morgue at a field hospital set up at Dell'Antonia sports gym in Santo Andre, on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil April 7, 2021. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
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Chinese vaccine found 50.7% effective against variant in Brazil

Health workers carry the body of a man who died due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) for his cremation at a crematorium in New Delhi, India, June 4, 2020. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo
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Global Covid-19 death toll surpasses 3 million amid new infections resurgence

Cemetery workers and relatives carry the coffin of a woman, who died of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), during her funeral at the Municipal cemetery in Nezahualcoyotl, on the outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico, January 27, 2021. REUTERS/Henry Romero
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Mexico says Covid-19 deaths likely 60% higher than confirmed toll

Health workers and a relative carry the body of a man, who died due to COVID-19, from an ambulance to a crematorium in New Delhi, India, November 13, 2020. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
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India reports most Covid-19 deaths since early January as second virus surge grips

Tanzania's President elect John Pombe Magufuli addresses members of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi Party (CCM) at the party's sub-head office on Lumumba road in Dar es Salaam, October 30, 2015. REUTERSSadi SaidFile Photo
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Tanzania's President John Magufuli and Covid-19 sceptic dies at 61

Covid-19 cases crosses 5.50 lakh in one year
Covid-19 in Bangladesh

Covid-19 cases crosses 5.50 lakh in one year

Health workers carry the body of a man who died due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) for his cremation at a crematorium in New Delhi, India, June 4, 2020. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo
Coronavirus chronicle

Covid-19 lethality worldwide decreases by 20% in one week

In this March 25, 2020, file photo, patients wear personal protective equipment while maintaining social distancing as they wait in line for a Covid-19 test at Elmhurst Hospital Center, in New York. Photo: AP
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Why the US has the highest Covid-19 death toll

Mourners attend a funeral amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Everett, Massachusetts, US, May 4, 2020/ Reuters
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US nears 500,000 Covid-19 deaths as Biden plans commemoration