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| - Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: Delhi hospitals issue desperate appeals for oxygen, and 13 Covid patients die in a fire, as India's healthcare system buckles under a new wave of infections that sees another 330,000 cases and 2,000 deaths in the past 24 hours. President Vladimir Putin backs a call from health officials for a 10-day "non-working" period next month to slow a surge in the virus. Japan calls a new state of emergency in Tokyo and three other regions as the country battles rising infections just three months before the Olympics. Australia's diving team says it is "not safe" to travel to Japan as they withdraw from an Olympics test event. The variant driving the explosion of cases in India has now been detected in Belgium in a group of Indian nursing students who arrived in mid-April from Paris, with 20 testing positive. With worries about the strain rising, Canada suspends all passenger flights from India and Pakistan for 30 days. Pandemic support measures have sent UK borrowing rocketing to the highest level since World War II, with public sector net borrowing ballooning to £303.1 billion ($420.8 billion) in the year to March. Australian authorities order a three-day lockdown in the western city of Perth after the virus escapes from a quarantine hotel housing infected international travellers. Singapore quarantines about 1,200 migrant workers from a dormitory after cases are discovered among men thought to have already recovered from the virus. French spirits group Remy Cointreau says a boost from its Remy Martin cognac saved it from the worst economic effects of the pandemic, even though overall sales fell slightly. At least 3,073,969 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 US is the worst-affected country with 570,346 deaths, followed by Brazil with 383,502, Mexico with 214,095, India with 186,920 and Britain with 127,345. burs-eab/fg/dl
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