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Mexico’s health ministry has reported 6,740 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 128 more fatalities, Reuters reports.

It brings its total to 2,854,992 infections and 241,034 deaths.

Brazil had 20,503 new cases of coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours and 464 deaths, the country’s health ministry said on Sunday.

The South American country has now registered 19,938,358 cases since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 556,834, Reuters reports.

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Britain will offer Covid-19 booster vaccines to 32 million Britons starting early next month with up to 2,000 pharmacies expected to deliver the programme, the Daily Telegraph has reported.

The campaign could start as soon as 6 September, which would see the rollout completed by early December if it goes to plan, the report added.

The New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian said the state plans to break vaccination records this month in an effort to control Covid, as 239 new cases were recorded on Sunday.

“I am an optimist, it is a month for all of us to come forward and get the vaccine,” she said.

NSW is aiming to have 80% of the state vaccinated, but Berejiklian said even having 60% of eligible adults vaccinated “gives you a whole lot more options”.

“That is not a way to live, which is why we have been saying in NSW we would like this to be our last lockdown, so long as people get vaccinated.”

Thousands turned out in Berlin on Sunday to protest the German government’s anti-coronavirus measures despite a ban on the gatherings, leading to clashes with police and about 600 arrests.
Local authorities had banned several different protests this weekend, including one from the Stuttgart-based Querdenker movement, but protesters in Berlin defied the ban, Associated Press reports. Berlin’s police department deployed more than 2,000 officers to try to disperse the protests, but it said officers who sought to redirect protesters or disband larger groups were “harassed and attacked”.

A day after it recorded the most new daily cases since the start of the pandemic, Florida on Sunday broke a previous record for current hospitalisations, as the number of patients in hospitals because of Covid-19 once again broke through the 10,000-person threshold.

It had 10,207 people in hospital with confirmed Covid-19 cases, according to data reported to the US Department of Health & Human Services, Associated Press reports.

The previous record came on 23 July, 2020, more than a half-year before vaccinations started becoming widespread, when Florida had 10,170 hospital admissions.

Florida is now leading the US in per capita hospitalisations for the virus, as hospitals around the state report having to put emergency room visitors in beds in hallways and others document a noticeable drop in the age of patients.

France has reported 1,137 people in intensive care with Covid-19, an increase of 38, Reuters reports.

Two Sumatran tigers are recovering at a zoo in Indonesia after being infected with coronavirus, officials said.

Nine-year-old Tino and 12-year-old Hari tested positive in mid-July after they experienced flu-like symptoms, trouble breathing and appetite loss, AFP reports.

But the male tigers are on the mend after treatment.

“Both animals are healthy now,” Suzi Marsitawati, head of Jakarta’s Parks and Forest Service, said in a statement. “Their appetite has returned to normal and they are active again.”

Lewis Hamilton believes he may still have not fully recovered from contracting Covid-19 after he experienced fatigue and dizziness at the Hungarian Grand Prix.

The British driver finished third in a monumental effort to come back from last place at the Hungaroring but admitted he fears he may be suffering from long Covid.

After his immense recovery drive, Hamilton missed the start of the post-race press conferences as he was being attended to by his Mercedes team doctor for fatigue.

Afterwards, he admitted that he did not feel he had fully recovered from the effects of the virus he contracted in December last year.