US deaths from the coronavirus were approaching 150,000 on Wednesday, the highest level in the world and increased by around 10,000 in just 11 days, as 21 states enter what the federal government considers the “red zone” of increasing infection rates. The nation recorded the deadliest day of summer in …
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Seventy-two death notices spread across an entire page of the Monitor newspaper in Hidalgo County recently. The small print entries, stacked in five ordered columns, did not mention Covid-19. But 27 residents of the South Texas community had died from the virus that day, 22 the day before and 35 …
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More than half of people living in the slums of Mumbai have had the coronavirus, according to a study commissioned by the city that raises new questions about India’s official case numbers. India is already the third most affected country after the United States and Brazil, with almost 1.5 million …
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Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan has threatened to unleash his legion of fans on online trolls who wish him death from the coronavirus, after talking about the stigma suffered by patients. Bachchan and his actor son Abhishek have been in a Mumbai hospital for more than two weeks with Covid-19, while …
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A record number of people were killed last year for defending their land and environment, according to research highlighting the routine murder of activists opposing the extractive industries that are fueling the climate crisis and destroying nature. More than four defenders were killed each week in 2019, according to an …
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