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A year after a global pandemic was declared, several Balkan countries are tightening coronavirus measures to ease pressure on their struggling health systems while Mauritius has announced a lockdown and Brazil posted a record high number of daily deaths.
On March 11, 2020, when the World Health Organisation declared a pandemic, confirmed cases of COVID-19 stood at 125,000 and reported deaths stood at fewer than 5000.
Today, 117 million people are confirmed to have been infected around the world and more than 2.6 million people have died.
Doctors in Bosnia s capital of Sarajevo, where the first vaccines arrived on Wednesday, warned that infections have exploded in recent days and urged people to comply with pandemic regulations as long queues formed outside COVID-19 wards in city hospitals.
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Mauritius has gone into lockdown and suspended flights in and out of the island for two weeks following the discovery of 15 more cases of Covid-19, the Mauritius state tourism agency said on Wednesday.
Mauritius has gone into lockdown and suspended flights in and out of the island for two weeks following the discovery of 15 more cases of COVID-19, the Mauritius state tourism agency said on Wednesday.