NEW YORK: The World Health Organization (WHO) declared Latin America “a new epicenter” of the coronavirus pandemic Friday, as United States President Donald Trump demanded churches reopen despite the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) threat.

MORE DEATHS Gravediggers at a cemetery outside Brazil’s Sao Paulo on May 22, 2020, a day after the World Health Organization has warned that South America is a new epicenter of Covid-19. AFP PHOTO

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