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The number of people who have died from Covid-19 around the world has passed three million, according to an AFP tally, as the number of fatalities continues to rise despite vaccination campaigns. IMAGES
Healthcare workers in Buenos Aires test residents for the new coronavirus at a drive-through testing site, as the world nears 2 million Covid-19 deaths. IMAGES
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus estimates the number of deaths caused by Covid-19 to be "at least 20 million", well above the official number reported to WHO of "almost seven million deaths". SOUNDBITE
The World Health Organization says that Europe and Central Asia could see another half a million deaths by February next year. SOUNDBITE from Director of WHO Europe Hans Kluge
US President Joe Biden will order flags on all US federal buildings to be lowered to half mast in commemoration of the imminent half million mark in the country's death toll from Covid-19, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
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