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Added on the 03/06/2020 11:27:49 - Copyright : France 24 EN
Authorities check vehicles at the French-Italian border as Italy reopens in order to lure European tourists after the coronavirus crisis. IMAGES
Police officers patrol and carry out checks in Rome and the Vatican as a partial lockdown is in place across the country until January 6 to combat a surge in Covid infections. Restrictions include limits on people leaving their homes more than once a day and curbs on regional travel. IMAGES
The Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro reopens to tourists as the city eases its lockdown. Coronavirus has killed 106,523 people in Brazil so far. IMAGES
Karachi / Peshawar (Pakistan), Aug 10 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Shahzaib Akbar / Bilawal Arbab).- Pakistan is gradually reopening its economy after several months of lockdown due to the pandemic. FOOTAGE OF STALLS, RESTAURANTS IN KARACHI AND PESHAWAR.
Rome (Italy), 17 June, EFE, (Camera: Jorge Ortiz).- Around half a million Italian students are set to take their university entrance exams more than three and a half months after schools were closed to contain the spread of Covid-19. A nerve-wracking moment at the best of times, this year the maturitá, as it is known in Italian, has been altered to reflect the extraordinary circumstances, given that students this year will take the test without having sat in a classroom since before 4 March.FOOTAGE OF THE LYCÉE E. Q. VISCONTI IN ROME AND STUDENTS INCLUDING A SOUNDBITE FROM GIORDANA, AN ITALIAN STUDENTTRANSLATION:"If we all wore masks, all at a distance. I've had to use the computer they were disinfecting every time, so it's all quiet that way."
Buenos Aires, Jun 11 (EFE).-Argentina's consumer price index registered a year-on-year increase of 43.4 percent in May, the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec) reported on Thursday. According to the agency, the country´s CPI rose 1.5 percent month-on-month, which confirms the slowdown seen in April after a 3.3-percent rise in March.Just like April, the May economy was largely affected by an unprecedented macroeconomic inactivitiy due to the coronavirus lockdown that has been in place since Mar 20. (Camera: ALBERTO CARATOZZOLO).SHOT LIST: DAILY LIFE IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA, DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.