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| - Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: The first emergency medical supplies arrive in India as a part of a global campaign to staunch its catastrophic outbreak, with the US pledging to send millions of AstraZeneca vaccines. Brazil's Senate opens an inquiry into the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, a move that could damage Covid-sceptic President Jair Bolsonaro as he gears up to seek re-election next year. Americans vaccinated against the coronavirus will no longer need to wear masks outdoors, except at crowded events, the Centers for Disease Control says. Separately, the United States says it is easing remaining Covid-19 restrictions on international students, allowing Chinese nationals to start the school year at US universities. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador describes as "encouraging" signs of an easing of the pandemic in his country, which has the third-highest death toll in the world after the United States and Brazil. US central bankers open their two-day policy meeting, having committed to continuing pumping cash into the economy until it fully recovers from ravages of the pandemic. Belgium becomes the latest territory to ban travel from India, along with Brazil and South Africa, all hit by fast-spreading coronavirus variants. Spain says it will impose a 10-day quarantine on all travellers arriving from India. And Iceland will bar travellers from 16 countries considered to be at a "high risk" of Covid-19 infections. A Barcelona concert with a 5,000-strong audience of unvaccinated music fans last month to test pandemic-safe ways of holding mass events has passed off with "no sign" of infections, doctors say. Russians' life expectancy last year dropped for the first time in nearly 20 years, to 71.5 years, compared with 73.3 years in 2019, with officials blaming the pandemic for the decline. At least 3,122,150 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 572,674 deaths, followed by Brazil with 391,936, Mexico 215,113, India 197,894 and Britain 127,434. burs-eab-jmy/spm
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