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A worker sprays rosewater among the worshipers wearing face masks, during a Friday prayer in Tehran, Iran on Friday, Oct. 22, 2021. Friday marked the first public Friday prayer services in Tehran in 20 months, after halting it amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) XNYT36

October 27, 2021 at 6:34 am

LiveCoronavirus daily news updates, Oct. 27: What to know today about COVID-19 VIEW

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A woman wearing a face mask to help protect from the coronavirus rides on a toy car with a child at a shopping mall in Beijing, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) XAW103

October 26, 2021 at 6:37 am

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Workers wearing face masks to protect against COVID-19 pause their work as Yun Sung-bin of South Korea competes during the men’s skeleton in an IBSF Sanctioned Race, a test event for the 2022 Winter Olympics, at the Yanqing National Sliding Center in Beijing, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

October 25, 2021 at 6:41 am

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A woman wearing a face mask uses her cellphone in a subway train in Lisbon, Friday, Oct. 22, 2021. Portugal has scrapped many of its remaining COVID-19 restrictions but the wearing of face masks is still mandatory on public transport, in hospitals and care homes, and in shopping malls. (AP Photo/Armando Franca) XAF101 XAF101

October 23, 2021 at 8:03 am

Coronavirus daily news updates, Oct. 23: What to know today about COVID-19

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October 22, 2021 at 8:00 pm

This week’s passages VIEW

A roundup of notable obituaries from the week ending October 22.

An aerial view shows fresh graves at the Yastrebkovskoe cemetery, which serves as one of the burial grounds for those who died of the coronavirus, outside in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021. The government coronavirus task force reported 36,339 new confirmed infections and more than thousand deaths in the past 24 hours. That brought Russia’s death toll to 227,389, by far the highest in Europe. Moscow Mayor Sergei said all restaurants, cafes and non-food stores, gyms, cinemas and other entertainment venues in the Russian capital will be shut from Oct. 28 to Nov. 7. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov) XAZ105 XAZ105

October 22, 2021 at 6:22 am

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Demonstrators wear masks representing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro as they protest his government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic outside Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

October 21, 2021 at 6:16 am

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Members of the South Korean Confederation of Trade Unions wearing masks and costumes inspired by the Netflix original Korean series “Squid Game” shout slogans during a rally demanding job security in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. Thousands of workers gathered ignoring the government’s call to cancel the assembly feared to affect the fight against COVID-19. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

October 20, 2021 at 6:22 am

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White scarves representing people who have died of COVID-19 in Brazil are hung over a field to protest the government’s health policies outside Congress in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Oct. 18, 2021. The scarves will be given to members of the Senate Parliamentary Inquiry Commission who are investigating President Jair Bolsonaro’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres) XEP103 XEP103

October 19, 2021 at 6:27 am

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A man wearing a face mask to protect against coronavirus walks by graffiti in the southern, ethnic Albanian-dominated part of Mitrovica, Kosovo. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

October 18, 2021 at 6:22 am

Coronavirus daily news updates, Oct. 18: What to know today about COVID-19 VIEW

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