Description
Added on the 01/05/2020 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Yangon, Oct 20 (EFE/EPA).-With one of the worst healthcare systems in the world, the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar is confronting a surge in COVID-19 cases with the help of an army of community volunteers.(Camera: LYNN BO BO). SHOT LIST: VOLUNTEERS HELPING TO COLLECT GOODS AND CLEANING TO HELP COVID-19 VICTIMS AND THE PREVENTION OF THE DISEASE IN YANGON, MYANMAR.
Bangkok, May 29 (EFE/EPA).- Thailand's Mahidol University, in cooperation with National Science and Technology Development Agency and NETbay Public Co. Ltd., has developed autonomous mobile robots to assist medical staffs in the fight against the COVID-19 disease. 'Hapybot' robots are designed to assist medical workers to reduce their contact with infected patients, track patients in ward, deliver meals, medical equipment and medicine among other tasks. (Camera: NARONG SANGNAK). SHOT LIST: PRESS CONFERENCE AND PRESENTATION OF 'HAPPYBOT' MEDICAL ROBOTS AT THE FACULTY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY, IN BANGKOK, THAILAND.
Samut Prakan, May 5 (EFE).- The traditional Buddhist temples in Thailand have adopted innovative measures like setting up sanitizing tunnels and making masks to join the fight against COVID-19, apart from holding special prayers for the victims.Those visiting the Wat Chak Daeng temple outside Bangkok have to pass through a tunnel where they are sprayed with disinfectants, and monks equipped with masks and visors check their temperature before allowing them to enter.Not only have the monks added an orange mask to their attire - which has remained largely unchanged since the times of Buddha (2,500 years ago) - but they also make their own sanitizers and distribute food to those in need.Last year Wat Chak Daeng began producing orange robes with threads made out of Polyethylene terephthalate, a type of plastic sorted on the premises and later sent to a recycling plant.Subsequently they also began making air pollution masks which have now been adapted to provide protection from germs amid the spread of the novel coronavirus. (Camera; GAZPAR RUIZ-CANELA/DIEGO AZUBEL).FOOTAGE SHOWS ALMSGIVING IN SAMUT PRAKAN, SOUTH OF BANGKOK, THAILAND AND MONKS OF WAT CHAK DAENG TEMPLE CARRING OUT COVID-19 SCREENING MEASURES AND PRODUCING MASKS.SOUNDBITES: PRANOM DHAMMALANGKARO, 54, THE HEAD MONK OF WAT CHAK DAENG TEMPLE; AND CHAMNANVET, 35, A MONK AT THE TEMPLE (IN THAI). TRANSLATIONS: 1.) PRANOM DHAMMALANGKARO: For those who want to come to the temple, we will take their temperature first. Then, they will go through the sterilization tunnel and they will have to clean their hands before entering. If the temperature is not within the acceptable degree, they have to stay at the entrance. We also do a registration for visitors who enter or exit the temple. (00:22-00:44).2.) PRANOM DHAMMALANGKARO: For the monks who come from risk areas, we place them under quarantine for 14 days. They do not have to participate in the communal activities of the temple. It does not matter if that monk is ill or not, he will have to remain under quarantine. (00:51-01:02).3.) PRANOM DHAMMALANGKARO: Now we can produce the material for the mask. Before, we designed masks to protect PM2.5 particles. But with the COVID-19 situation going on now, We are making them for our monks, for those who reside in our temple, for the communities nearby, and for other temples. Some were sent to the hospitals as well (01:13-01:33).3.) CHAMNANVET: You can read these characters written below as" YA NI RAT TA NANG "which is part of a Buddhist chant from the Rattana Sutra, the chant that Thais believe can drive out ghosts, demons, or disease.(01:44-02:00).5.) CHAMNANVET: Let's say these masks itself can protect you from the infection, but the inscription on them reflect the belief and serves to remind people (who wear them) not to live a careless life ( 02:10-02:26).
Dhaka (Bangladesh), Sep 30 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Monirul Alam) .- About 170 workers and 130 volunteers from the Bangladesh Rural Promotion Committee (BRAC) held an event on Thursday of awareness through the streets of Dhaka about covid-19, delivering masks to avoid contagion.FOOTAGE FROM THE BRAC WORKERS AND VOLUNTEERS 'COVID-19 AWARENESS CAMPAIGN IN DHAKA, BANGLADESH.
Buenos Aires, Aug 16 (EFE).- Hundreds of people took part in the "march of the stones" in Argentina on Monday to honor those who had died due to Covid-19 during the past year-and-a-half and protest against President Alberto Fernández's administration for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.The emotional march was convened on social media by citizens who were unable to say goodbye to loved ones or be with them during their last moments due to health restrictions that prevented them from going near their sick family members, travel within the country or perform funeral ceremonies.The participants placed a stone in front of Casa Rosada, the seat of the government, and at the Olivos presidential residence, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, but also in other iconic spots in the interior of the country. (Camera: ALBERTO CARATOZZOLO). SHOT LIST: PROTESTERS PLACE STONES WITH THE NAMES OF VICTIMS OF COVID-19 DURING A PROTEST AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT FOR THE HANDLING OF THE PANDEMIC AND IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DIED FROM CORONAVIRUS, IN FRONT OF THE CASA ROSADA (EXECUTIVE HEADQUARTERS), IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA.
|
Support : Technical 
- Content 
- Editors 
