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November 20, 2020

Mexico Becomes Fourth Nation to Record 100,000 Coronavirus Deaths
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Mexico has become the fourth nation to pass 100,000 COVID-19 deaths,
following Brazil, India and the United States.

In Honduras, tens of thousands of people who fled Hurricanes Iota and
Eta have packed overcrowded storm shelters, raising fears of a spike of
new infections.

Across Europe, hospitals report a shortage of both ICU beds and healthy
doctors and nurses to staff them, amid signs that a second wave of
COVID-19 is finally slowing due to public health measures that were
reintroduced beginning in October.

In South Australia, officials have lifted a strict coronavirus lockdown
three days early, after they determined a man who became infected lied
to contact tracers, raising unfounded fears of a highly contagious
strain of the virus. Australia has nearly eradicated COVID-19, with only
a handful of cases reported in recent weeks.

Meanwhile the World Health Organization is advising doctors not to
administer the anti-viral drug Remdesivir to COVID-19 patients, after
concluding it has no meaningful effect on mortality or recovery times.


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