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Around 115,000 health professionals are suspected to have died from Covid-19 between January 2020 and May 2021 says Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization. SOUNDBITE
Health workers in Mexico City perform COVID-19 tests at a mobile testing site as the virus deaths count surpasses 50,000, the world's third-highest fatality toll from the disease, behind only the United States and Brazil. IMAGES
Healthcare workers at Mt Sinai hospital in New York City hold a vigil for their colleagues who died from coronavirus while fighting on the frontlines of the pandemic. IMAGES
People queue outside a Covid-19 test center as Germany hits a record 100,000 daily Covid-19 cases. Germany's daily toll of new Covid-19 cases has topped 100,000 for the first time, according to data from the country's public health agency. IMAGES
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the Covid-19 pandemic will be over when "the world chooses to end it", adding "we have all the tools we need, but the world has not used those tools well". SOUNDBITE