Brazil has lost 207,000 people to Covid-19 in the past three months alone, but President Jair Bolsonaro decided to host the Copa América, arguing, “We have to live.”

Births at the island nation’s zoos are up 25 percent, a rare bright spot as Covid-19 ravages an economy closely tied to tourism.

The Southeast Asian nation has prided itself on successfully containing the coronavirus. But an outbreak at a church in Ho Chi Minh City and the emergence of a deadly new variant suggest its luck may be running out.

The World Health Organization said that such an infection was “a vivid reminder that the threat of an influenza pandemic is persistent.”

In parts of South America and Asia, lockdowns have resumed, coronavirus deaths are climbing and vaccinations are proceeding far more slowly than in the West.

To meet a jump in demand, the country’s bike-making industry is building new factories, hiring workers and dealing with parts shortages.

Hotels not necessarily known for fine dining are drawing award-winning chefs seeking opportunities for reinvention.

Spanish officials say Morocco increasingly sees migrants as currency for financial and political gains after it let up to 12,000 flood into a Spanish enclave in North Africa over two days.

Efforts to save the vessel, the biggest in the country’s naval fleet and described as a “training ship,” failed. The authorities offered no cause for the blaze.

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