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| - Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: Britain passes the milestone of vaccinating 20 million adults -- 38.2 precent of the adult population -- with two doses of the coronavirus jab, a day before a raft of restrictions are lifted across most of the country. A member of Iceland's delegation to Eurovision has tested positive for Covid-19 hours ahead of the glitzy competition's grand opening in the Dutch port of Rotterdam. The Icelandic delegation is the second to miss the music pageant's opening after a member of the Polish delegation tested positive on Saturday. Portugal will open to tourists from nearly all European countries from Monday, says the interior ministry. Travellers from most EU countries, the 26-nation Schengen Area and the UK can make "all types of visits to Portugal, including even non-essential visits". The Indian state of West Bengal, stricken by coronavirus after mass rallies were held for a key election, orders a two-week lockdown in a bid to halt the spread. All offices, stores and public transport are told to close after the region reported its biggest surge yet in deaths and infections. Health authorities in Argentina say the country's death toll has passed 70,000 and the average daily number of new cases is more than 20,000. Organisers of the Giro d'Italia peloton say all riders and their entourages have tested negative for Covid-19. At the 2020 cycling event two entire teams were taken out after positive cases, but after this second round of testing in 2021 no member of the 23 teams has yet tested positive. At least 3,372,445 people have died since the coronavirus outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to an AFP tally from official sources at 1800 GMT Sunday. The United States is the worst-affected country with 585,708 deaths, followed by Brazil with 434,715, India with 270,284 Mexico with 220,384 and Britain with 127,679. burs-kd-ot/gd/jj
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