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Officials in Gibraltar have confirmed the territory’s first Covid-19 death since March. The man who died was in his 60s and unvaccinated, according to the territory’s chief minister.
“It is deeply upsetting to announce a death from Covid-19 after so many months,” chief minister Fabian Picardo said in a statement. He described the news as a “harrowing reminder that the pandemic is still not over and this deadly virus is still all around us.”
In a matter of just six minutes, a factory worker from a Mexican border city stepped off a bus in Texas last week, received the Covid-19 vaccine and was heading back home across the international bridge to Mexico.
The vaccination took place near El Paso, the west Texas city where the coronavirus was raging so relentlessly nine months ago that jail inmates were being used to load bodies into mobile morgues because funeral homes were overflowing.
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