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Tegucigalpa, Jul 8 (EFE) .- Honduran civil society sectors, including education and healthcare, on Wednesday told their government that “enough is enough" of corruption, particularly during the COVID-19 crisis which has claimed the lives of almost 700 and infected some 26,000 people in the country.The message to President Juan Orlando Hernandez was backed up with a convoy of vehicles that traveled across a boulevard of Tegucigalpa to protest via slogans written on the windows of vehicles, as carrying out demonstrations is not possible due to the curfew in place since March. (Camera: URIEL GUDIEL)FOOTAGE SHOWS THE PROTEST IN HONDURAS. SOUNDBITES: DR. SUYAPA FIGUEROA AND PRESIDENT OF SCHOOL FOR DENTISTS MARCO GARAY (IN SPANISH)TRANSLATIONAS:SUYAPA FIGUEROA: (00:03:25-00:03:47) Honduras is the country where thanks to the looting and mercy they made of these approved funds, thanks to the corruption that prevails within the national authorities, we have nothing. We lack personal protective equipment thanks to which today we already have 16 dead.MARCO GARAY: (00:03:47-00:04:20"Our people are dying in health centers and they are dying in hospitals due to the lack of supplies, and lack of medicines. All of our colleagues, doctors, nurses, dentists, are being infected by COVID-19. And the government is deaf and blind and does not respond to the call that we are making as guilds.

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