Worldwide Covid-19 deaths pass 290,000 –as it happened
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Dan Collyns reports for the Guardian:
More than half of the medics fighting a Covid-19 outbreak in the Peruvian jungle city of Iquitos have been infected with the virus, according to the sub-director of the regional health office, Graciela Meza.
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