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The number of deaths around the world from the Covid-19 pandemic has now passed 100,000, 101 days after Chinese health authorities first alerted the World Health Organisation of a new coronavirus in Wuhan.
The worst affected country remains Italy, with 18,849 deaths so far, according to the tally kept by the Maryland, US-based Johns Hopkins University. The US is now the second worst-affected country, with 17,925 deaths. Spain is third, with 15,970 deaths.
Poland’s ruling nationalists have come under fire after failing to observe health advice issued by their own government to curb the spread of coronavirus at a memorial service for the country’s former president.
Poles who turned on the television to watch a scaled back memorial service to commemorate the 10th anniversary of a plane crash in Russia that killed president Lech Kaczynski, as well as top politicians and military officers, were shocked to see the country’s leading politicians standing side by side.
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