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Gravediggers place flowers on the tomb of a victim of Covid-19 at the Municipal Pantheon of Ecatepec, Mexico state, Mexico, on February 2, 2021.
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MEXICO CITY - When Miguel caught the coronavirus his family hoped help would come quickly for the Mexican grandfather, but instead they had to wait for oxygen, a hospital bed and, finally, a cremation.
Their story is increasingly familiar as Mexico reels from its worst month of the pandemic yet, with more than 32,000 deaths in January, overwhelming hospitals, mortuaries, cemeteries, and crematoriums.
After Miguel fell ill in late December, the doctor asked us to go get oxygen, and that s where the long journey began, ; said his 32-year-old granddaughter, who asked not to identify her grandfather s family name for reasons of privacy.
COVID-19: WHO team visits Wuhan lab
Published 3 February 2021
World Health Organization experts on Wednesday inspected a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan that some US officials said could have been the source of the coronavirus, as global vaccine hopes rose with strong results reported for Russia’s Sputnik V jab.
The Covid-19 pandemic has shown no signs of slowing down even as vaccines are rolled out, with known infections surging past 103 million, more than 2.2 million dead and the global economy devastated.
A WHO team searching for clues about the pandemic’s origins went to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, one of the most-watched stops on a politically sensitive trip to the central Chinese city where the virus was first detected.
WHO team visits Wuhan lab as Russian vaccine boosts hopes
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World Health Organization experts on Wednesday inspected a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan that some US officials said could have been the source of the coronavirus, as global vaccine hopes rose with strong results reported for Russia’s Sputnik V jab.
The Covid-19 pandemic has shown no signs of slowing down even as vaccines are rolled out, with known infections surging past 103 million, more than 2.2 million dead and the global economy devastated.
A WHO team searching for clues about the pandemic’s origins went to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, one of the most-watched stops on a politically sensitive trip to the central Chinese city where the virus was first detected.