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SOUNDBITENew York state's coronavirus toll rose at a devastating pace to 3,565 deaths Saturday, Governor Andrew Cuomo says, up from 2,935 the previous day, the largest 24-hour jump recorded there.
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20.08.2024
Pope urges courage as global death toll tops 65,000
A Moroccan health ministry worker disinfects a street in the capital Rabat to combat the spread of coronavirus
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20.08.2024
Morocco to free over 5,000 prisoners to slow virus spread
Pope Francis celebrated Palm Sunday mass behind closed doors at St Peter's on Sunday
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20.08.2024
Pope livestreams Palm Sunday mass due to virus 'tragedy'
A man wearing gloves and a face mask walks by a mural reading "Cancel Plans Not Humanity" in Los Angeles, California
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20.08.2024
We don't need no social distance: US police bust Pink Floyd 'corona party'
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Some passengers on the Ruby Princess cruise ship were displaying flu-like symptoms when it berthed in Sydney Harbour
World 20.08.2024
Australia police to probe cruise ship virus deaths
Hong Kong pro-democracy activists attend a protest in support of jailed Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang (R on placard) and China's first "cyber-dissident" and founder of human rights website "64 Tianwang", Huang Qi (L on placard)
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Chinese human rights lawyer released but unable to see family
Authorities collected at least 150 bodies from streets and homes earlier this week, but did not confirm how many of the dead were victims of the outbreak
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Ecuador VP apologizes after virus corpses left on streets
Li Wenzu shaved her head in 2018 in protest at the jailing of her husband Wang Quanzhang during the 709 crackdown
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China rights lawyer released after five years in jail
Roman Catholic priest Pepe Quitorio delivers blessing from a motorised tricycle in Borongan in the central Philippines
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Drive-by blessings in virus-hit Philippines
Red-light districts from Bangkok to Pattaya have gone quiet with night clubs and massage parlours closed and tourists blocked from entering the country
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Scared but desperate, Thai sex workers forced to the street
People 'suddenly' find themselves poor
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Coronavirus pandemic 'amplifying' poverty in UK
The coronavirus has dampened but by no means ended hostilities in the multiple conflicts roiling the Middle East
World 20.08.2024
What impact is COVID-19 having on Middle East conflicts?
A woman carries a disabled man wearing a protective face mask in the Sabra refugee camp in Lebanon where vulnerable Syrian and Palestinian refugees are bracing for the coronavirus
World 20.08.2024
Palestinian, Syrian refugees in Lebanon camps brace for virus
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