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The British government orders schools and non-essential shops in Leicester, central England, to close and urges people to stay at home after a localised outbreak of coronavirus. Health Secretary Matt Hancock says nationwide moves to ease a three-month lockdown will no longer apply in the city due to high rates of COVID-19, telling parliament: " The more people follow the rules, the faster we'll get control of this virus and get Leicester back to normal." IMAGES
Quito, Ecuador May 20 (EFE) .- Guayaquil, the city hardest hit by COVID-19 in Ecuador, began its reactivation process on Wednesday by going from "red" to "yellow" in the epidemiological traffic light, which allows the opening of shops and the expansion of public transport services, among others.(CAMERA: Juan Francisco Chávez)
Hundreds of people stand in line as they wait for food handouts outside a church in Everett, Massachusetts. With rising unemployment, due to the coronavirus, thousands in the state are struggling to buy food. Grace's Food Pantry at First Baptist Church in Everett, is handing out 70,000 pounds of food including canned goods, fresh vegetables and other food necessities. IMAGES
Hialeah (Florida, USA), May 8 (EFE / EPA) .- Unemployment in the United States shot up to 14.7 percent in April as a result of the coronavirus that has destroyed more than 20 million jobs, said the Labor Department.(CAMERA: Cristóbal Herrera)
Manaus, Apr 22 (EFE).- In the largest cemetery in Manaus, they have begun burying coffins in mass graves. Enough funeral services cannot be held and public hospitals are being overwhelmed by the increase in the number of deaths and cases of Covid-19 in the state of Amazonas, one of Brazil's regions hardest-hit by the pandemic.Before the arrival of the coronavirus in Amazonia, Manaus averaged 20-35 burials per day, but now that number has tripled to about 100 per day, according to what Mayor Arthur Virgilio Neto, a former senator, told EFE. (Camera: RAPHAEL ALVES). SHOT LIST: FUNERAL SERVICE WORKERS AT THE JOAO LUCIO HOSPITAL IN MANAUS, BRAZIL.
Guayaquil, Apr 7 (EFE).- In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ecuador’s Joint Task Force in Guayaquil is working on the burial process for nearly 1,000 bodies that remain in morgues and the strengthening of medical infrastructure with two new hospitals.The objective of the head of the Force, Jorge Wated, is to bury about 100 bodies a day, which on Tuesday were being held in the small morgues of hospitals and in seven refrigerated containers installed in the city in recent days. (Camera: MARCOS PIN).CONTAIN FOOTAGE COURTESY OF THE PRISIDENTIAL PRESS OFFICE AND PHOTOS COURTESY OF GUAYAQUIL MUNICIPALITY OFFCE.SHOTLIST: PEOPLE WAITING OUTSIDE A HOSPITAL IN GUAYAQUIL; CASKETS OUTSIDE A CEMETERY IN GUAYAQUIL; AUTHORITIES RECOVERING BODIES; INSTALLATION OF A MOBILE HOSPITAL AND PHOTOS OF THE CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN OF THE NEW CEMETARIES.
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