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he body of 35 year old Amena, who died of Covid-19, is taken on a stretcher at a hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladesh enacted a nationwide lockdown on July 1st in an effort to contain a third wave of Covid, as cases have surged, fueled by the Delta variant first detected in neighboring India. (Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images)

he body of 35 year old Amena, who died of Covid-19, is taken on a stretcher at a hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladesh enacted a nationwide lockdown on July 1st in an effort to contain a third wave of Covid, as cases have surged, fueled by the Delta variant first detected in neighboring India. (Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images)