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New Delhi residents line up to get nose and throat swabs at a Covid-19 testing centre, as new data showed the biggest daily jump in new infections since the pandemic began. Hopes at the start of the year that the outbreak may be subsiding in the vast nation of 1.3 billion people have been dashed in recent weeks with a fresh wave of new cases. ++COMPLETES V045_97E2B4++ IMAGES
New Delhi residents line up to get nose and throat swabs at a Covid-19 testing centre, as new data showed the biggest daily jump in new infections since the pandemic began. Hopes at the start of the year that the outbreak may be subsiding in the vast nation of 1.3 billion people have been dashed in recent weeks with a fresh wave of new cases. On Monday health ministry data showed new infections exceeding 100,000 for the first time. IMAGES
Lorry drivers, stuck in the UK, get tested for Covid-19 to cross the Channel at Dover port. France and Britain reopened cross-Channel travel after a 48-hour ban to curb the spread of a new coronavirus variant but thousands of truckers faced being stranded for days near the port of Dover. IMAGES
A thousand crosses are placed in front of the Brazilian Congress to honour the people who died of Covid-19, and to denounce President Jair Bolsonaro handling of the pandemic. Brazil has the second-highest number of infections and deaths from the new coronavirus worldwide, after the United States: more than 1.2 million and 55,000, respectively. IMAGES
An Australian cruise ship stranded off the coast of Uruguay for two weeks with more than 100 people aboard infected with the new coronavirus arrives at the port of Montevideo. IMAGES