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| - Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: The number of people killed by Covid-19 passes the 100,000 mark in France, making it the third European country, after the UK and Italy, to pass the grim threshold. "We will not forget a single face, a single name," President Emmanuel Macron tweets. India's daily cases double in 10 days, with a record 200,000 new infections logged as authorities grapple with shortages of vaccines, treatments and hospital beds. Brazil's "failed" response to Covid-19 has driven the country to a "humanitarian catastrophe," Doctors Without Borders says, accusing President Jair Bolsonaro's government of worsening the health crisis. The share of Covid-19 related deaths in over-80s in Europe has reached its lowest level since the start of the pandemic, the World Health Organization says. The US Labor Department reports the least new weekly jobless claims since before Covid-19 struck in March 2020. And the Commerce Department announces retail sales surged by 9.8 percent in March and were 27.7 percent higher than in the same month last year. Italy's government has agreed to borrow another 40 billion euros ($48 billion) this year to help mitigate the economic effects of the pandemic, a prime ministerial source says. A senior Japanese politician says cancelling the Tokyo Olympics remains a possibility as a surge in cases renews concerns about the Games with less than 100 days to go. Greece plans to open its borders to vaccinated visitors from several countries from next week, as it seeks to restart its badly-hit tourism sector. At least 2,974,651 people have died of Covid-19 around the world since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP. The United States is the worst-affected country with 564,405 deaths, followed by Brazil with 361,884, Mexico with 210,812, India with 173,123 and Britain with 127,161. burs-eab-jmy/har
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