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A major Japanese newspaper has called for the Tokyo Olympic Games to be cancelled due to the worsening COVID-19 crisis in the country. 

NEW DELHI, May 26 – India's COVID-19 tally crossed 27 million on Wednesday, reaching 27,157,795, with 208,921 new confirmed cases recorded in the past 24 hours, said the federal health ministry.

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 25 – Brazil reported on Tuesday 2,173 more deaths from COVID-19, raising the national count to 452,031, the country's Ministry of Health said.

The situation in pandemic-ravaged South Asia is “unlike anything our region has seen before,” the regional director of UNICEF said Tuesday (May 25).

The World Health Organization chief opened the agency’s annual World Health Assembly in Geneva Monday by paying tribute to the 115,000 health care workers around the world who lost their lives fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Xinhua News Agency JAKARTA, May 24  -- The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 5,907 within one day to 1,781,127, with the death toll adding by 127 to 49,455, the Health Ministry...