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Healthcare workers listen as Chief of Staff Doctor Joseph Varon talks to them in the Covid-19 ward at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas on December 4, 2020. Joseph Varon, a doctor treating coronavirus patients at a Texas hospital, was working his 252nd day in a row when he spotted a distraught elderly man in the Covid-19 intensive care unit (ICU). Varon's comforting embrace of the white-haired man on Thanksgiving Day was captured by a photographer for Getty Images and has gone viral around the world. / AFP / AFP / Mark Felix
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US sets new record of 225,000 Covid cases in one day: tracker

WASHINGTON, Dec 5, 2020 (AFP) - For the second day in a row, the United States on Friday notched a record number of coronavirus cases

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WILMINGTON, DELAWARE - DECEMBER 04: U.S. President-elect Joe Biden put on a mask after he spoke on November job numbers at the Queen theater December 4, 2020 Wilmington, Delaware. U.S. economy added 245,000 jobs in November and pushed unemployment rate to 6.7% from 6.9% in October. Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP
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US job gains stall in November as Covid-19 cases surge

WASHINGTON, Dec 4, 2020 (AFP) - The US economy showed more signs that its recovery is stalling as hiring slowed amid a surge in Covid-19

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US President-elect Joe Biden on December 3, 2020 said he had asked the government's top infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauci to remain in his post and join his Covid-19 team after he takes office. "I asked him to stay on in the exact same role he's had for the past several presidents," Biden said in an interview with CNN, referring to the expert who outgoing President Donald Trump had suggested he would fire after the election. / AFP / CHANDAN KHANNA
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Grim milestone

- Global virus toll passes 1.5 million as nations plan for vaccine WASHINGTON, Dec 4, 2020 (AFP) - The world passed the grim milestone of