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"Any US citizen returning to the United States who has been in Hubei province in the previous 14 days, will be subject to up to 14 days of mandatory quarantine," says the secretary of the Health and Human Services department, Alex Azar. The US says it is declaring a public health emergency and temporarily banning the entry of foreign nationals who have traveled to China over the past two weeks to contain the spread of a deadly new virus. SOUNDBITE
First passengers arrive in Shanghai as China lifts quarantine requirements for inbound travellers, ending almost three years of self-imposed isolation even as the country battles a surge in Covid cases. IMAGES
Xinjiang, May 7 (EFE/EPA).- A muezzin calls for prayer during Ramadan from Kashgar's Id Kah mosque, the largest in China, without using a loudspeaker, unlike other Muslim places, while about 50 devotees gather to pray, a small number for a city of more than 700,000 people.The mosque, built in the 15th century and surrounded by gardens, can accommodate up to 20,000 people and is a symbol of Kashgar, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and the legendary capital of southern Xinjiang, predominantly populated by the Uyghur ethnic minority.The mosque's imam, Juma Tahir, was stabbed to death by four Islamic extremists on July 30, 2014, outside the compound a few minutes after morning prayer, meeting the same fate as other imams, especially in southern Xinjiang. (Camera: JAVIER GARCÍA / WU HONG).B-ROLL OF THE PRAYER AT ID QAH MOSQUE, CHINA'S LARGEST MOSQUE IN KASHGAR CITY, B-ROLL OF XINJIANG ISLAMIC MOSQUE IN URUMQI, B-ROLL THE ARABIC CLASSES AND RECITATION OF KORAN IN THE ISLAMIC MOSQUE OF XINJIANG, B-ROLL OF PEOPLE EATING DURING THE MONTH OF RAMADAN IN A URUMQI MARKET, XINJIANG, CHINA.SOUND BITES: MAMAT JUMA, IMAM OF THE ID QAH MOSQU AND OMAR ABDEL ABDULLAH, STUDENT TO GRADUATE AS AN IMAM AT THE XINJIANG ISLAMIC INSTITUTE.TRANSLATIONS: 1. MAMAT JUMA, IMAM OF THE ID QAH MOSQUE. - Rreligious extremists used to come to every mosque in the past. My father (former Imam of the mosque) was assassinated here in 2014 for no reason - the extremists don't need any reason. They kill people under the pretext of Islam.2. OMAR ABDEL ABDULLAH, STUDENT TO GRADUATE AS AN IMAM AT THE XINJIANG ISLAMIC INSTITUTE.- Religious freedom is enshrined in the Chinese Constitution. It is totally up to us whethere we pray alone at home or in mosques. It is not required by the Government. But if we did it in a public place, we could be disturbing (social) order and annoy other people who are not religious.
Zunyi (China), 12 abr (EFE), (Camera: Roman Pilipey)-. The Guizhou province, in southwest China, is known for their crops of green and black tea, whose production hasn't been threatened despite the coronavirus pandemic. In an effort to publicize the efforts of plantation workers the Chinese government organized press visits to the plantation called "The Chinese Sea of ??Tea".IMAGES OF A WOMAN HARVESTING TEA LEAVES IN A TEA PLANTATION CALLED 'THE CHINESE SEA OF TEA', IN YONGXING TOWN.
A team of World Health Organization experts leave a two-week quarantine in Wuhan to start a delayed, closely watched probe into the origins of the coronavirus. Members of the group, all wearing face masks, got onto a bus which zipped them away from the hotel where they had spent their mandatory quarantine. IMAGES
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