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At least 115,000 health and care workers have died from Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, the World Health Organzation chief says at the opening of the organisation's main annual assembly. SOUNDBITE
Health workers in Mexico City perform COVID-19 tests at a mobile testing site as the virus deaths count surpasses 50,000, the world's third-highest fatality toll from the disease, behind only the United States and Brazil. IMAGES
Healthcare workers at Mt Sinai hospital in New York City hold a vigil for their colleagues who died from coronavirus while fighting on the frontlines of the pandemic. IMAGES
Hong Kong's leader John Lee announces that the city will fully scrap the mask mandate: "I have an announcement to make, the mask mandate will be fully scrapped starting tomorrow, 1st March." SOUNDBITE
The streets are quiet on Sunday in Shanghai as China reports 13,146 Covid cases, the highest since the peak of the first wave more than two years ago. IMAGES
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.