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Added on the 02/07/2020 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Johannesburg (South Africa), Aug 9 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Kim Ludbrook).- The new 'Community' centre in the neighbourhood of Melville in Johannesburg offers free aerobics classes to its clients on Sundays. The new venue has recently opened to serve the local community after the older venue closed due to the huge economic effects of the pandemic.FOOTAGE OF AN AEROBIC CLASS.
Scene at London's King's Cross station around 08H30 local time on the first day of the advised return to working from home, which Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced last week to combat the Omicron variant. IMAGES
Johannesburg, Sep 17 (EFE/EPA).- “It was a traumatic, full-on terror kind of experience”. That is how Durban resident Surav Jimmi remembers the wave of violent riots that swept the country in July, leaving 354 people dead. Like many South Africans, Jimmi is now applying for a gun license because he sees no other way to guarantee his personal safety."It was a week full of no sleep, standing off in the community, seeing people getting shot at, us getting shot at, it's a traumatic experience,” the musician and entrepreneur tells Efe from the shooting range in the eastern city of Durban, the worst hit by the violence. (Camera: KIM LUDBROOK).B-ROLL OF PEOPLE TESTING FIREARMS AT "GIRLS ON FIRE" IN JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA.SOUND BITES: A RESIDENT OF DURBAN IN SOUTH AFRICA, SURAV JIMMI; GUN SHOP OWNER, INSTRUCTOR AND FOUNDER OF "GIRLS ON FIRE", LYNETTE OXLEY; MEMBER OF "GIRLS ON FIRE", TSHEPI MMEKWA; PRESIDENT OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN GUN OWNERS ASSOCIATION (SAGA), DAMIAN ENSLIN; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL'S SOUTH AFRICA DIRECTOR, SHENILLA MOHAMED AND RESEARCHER AT GUN FREE SOUTH AFRICA, CLAIRE TAYLOR (IN ENGLISH).
Seoul, Sep 16 (EFE/EPA).- South Korean health workers on Thursday gathered to demand guarantee of labor rights after the country's capital region reported its highest number of Covid-19 infections Wednesday.The figures are worrying as Saturday marks one of the main holiday periods of the country called Chuseok, a festival to celebrate the harvest and honor ancestors in which a large number of people travel from the capital region, where more than half of the national population lives, to other areas of the country. (Camera: JEON HEON-KYUN).SHOT LIST: SOUTH KOREAN WORKERS GATHER TO DEMAND LABOR RIGHTS IN SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA.
Residents of Pretoria get vaccinated against Covid-19, as South Africa struggles with a third wave of infections. The country, the worst affected by the pandemic in Africa, has seen the daily figures for new cases double over the past two weeks, while hospital admissions have climbed by nearly 60 percent over the same period. IMAGES