International travel: Government should slow down reopening, Yvette Cooper urges
The Government must slow down its plans to resume international travel, the home affairs select committee chairman Yvette Cooper has said, amid concerns that hundreds of cases of the Indian variant were imported during a three-week period. It s the Government which is ultimately in charge of this, Ms Cooper told the BBC. Look at what they ve done with the Indian variant - this was not inevitable. They should have put India on the red list at the same time as Pakistan and as Bangladesh. Since then we ve had this three-week period in which thousands of people have returned from India, and that probably includes hundreds of the new Indian variant cases.
Pandemic triggers new crisis in Peru: lack of cemetery space
FRANKLIN BRICEÑO, Associated Press
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Retired merchant Victor Coba takes measurements of the tombs he s building for his family at San Lazaro cemetery on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. The 72-year-old retired merchant is building graves for himself, his wife and four other relatives in a narrow space in the cemetery after watching learning that two dozen of his neighbors died of coronavirus.Martin Mejia/AP
LIMA, Peru (AP) After Joel Bautista died of a heart attack last month in Peru, his family tried unsuccessfully to find an available grave at four different cemeteries. After four days, they resorted to digging a hole in his garden.