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Paris, Dec 8 (EFE) .- (Camera: Josep Puig López) A dozen columns of the Grand Palais in Paris were dressed this Tuesday with the drawings of the Colombian artist Diana Velásquez, with which she wants to represent the different ways of the coronavirus pandemic.FOOTAGE OF THE GRAND PALAIS.
President-elect Joe Biden plans to start transforming America's stance on the global stage with a series of day-one executive actions. CNN reports Biden's transition team is beginning to turn his campaign-trail promises into plans he can implement early in his presidency. Sources say Biden's first focus is likely to be the worsening coronavirus pandemic. He is set to name a 12-person coronavirus task force on Monday. Biden intends to rejoin the Paris climate accord, a landmark international deal to combat climate change that Trump exited in 2017. The president-elect has also said he would rejoin the World Health Organization, which President Donald Trump moved to withdraw from this year.
Paris, Jun 17 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Christophe Petit-Tesson) The Disneyland Paris amusement park reopened its doors on Thursday after months of closure due to coronavirus restrictions. The park, closed since October, will maintain capacity limitations and the use of the mask for visitors over six years of age.FOOTAGE OF DISNEYLAND PARIS.
New York, Feb 26 (EFE), (Camera: Alba Vigaray/Jorge Fuentelsaz).- Luis and Alex work at the Addictive Wine and Tapas Bar in New York preparing 250 trays of bolognese for health workers at the Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx. It is part of an initiative by Spanish chef Jose Andres that provides a service for medical workers during the Covid-19 pandemic while doubling up as a business strategy to help restaurants weather the financial hit of coronavirus restrictions. “If there is an emergency, those restaurants are closed, so what better way to put them to use than to serve those who need it,” Andres tells Efe in an interview. In the last month alone, the chef’s NGO World Central Kitchen has offered 16 public hospitals in New York some 30,000 meals per day at a price of $6 to $8 per plate.FOOTAGE OF FOOD PREPARATION AT THE 'ADDICTIVE WINE AND TAPAS' RESTAURANT AND ELMHURST HOSPITAL IN QUEENS, NEW YORK.SOUNDBITES OF:-FRANCISCO DIEZ, OWNER OF 'ADDICTIVE WINE AND TAPAS': "During the pandemic, we closed on March 15. We closed completely because we did not have a take-out service, when people can pick the food up, since the concept of tapas (...) the beauty of it is to eat them at that moment because they come with bread."-GRACE RAMÍREZ, RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COVID-19 RESPONSE IN NEW YORK AT WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN:"In this specific initiative, all was quite different for us: we were facing a pandemic and, in the beginning, nobody knew what was going.""We have worked with more than 250 restaurants until today. We are really proud to say that we have literally saved over 250 restaurants from closure."-RUSSEL BERMEL, RESPONSIBLE FOR SPECIAL PROJECTS AT WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN:"We are helping people so they do not have to cook at home and think about what they have to prepare during the day."-ANTHONY JARZEMBOWSKI, ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AT ELMHURST HOSPITAL.
Grigny (France), Feb 26 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Martí Rodríguez/Mohammed Adra) Almost a year after the pandemic outbreak, Grigny, the poorest city on the Parisian periphery, is experiencing a worsening of its social drama with more young people needing help from a food bank.FOOTAGE OF GRIGNY NEIGHBORHOODS AND NGO "RESTOS DU COEUR" SOUNDBITES OF PHILIPPE RIO, MAYOR OF GRIGNY, AND ZINEB MEDIOUNI, UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANTRIO:1. "Poverty here affects childhood first. Almost 11.50% of the inhabitants are under 30 years of age. We are a city of the world, a host city that must confront the pandemic of poverty, which already existed, but which it is developed together with the covid ".2. "It is unjust, immoral and dangerous that there are pockets of misery in the richest region of Europe, Île de France."3. "We are the youth of France in the suburbs. But this country cannot only be happy with our youth for people like Kylian Mbappé (a native of the city of Bondy), who is a footballer. That is fine. But France must reconcile with its popular areas ”. MEDIOUNI:4. "I am an indocumented person. Ido not have a job, I do not earn anything. I thank the Resto du Coeur because it has helped me a lot. There are people who are not even lucky enough to be helped or anyone who speaks for them. Look at the social shelters like the one I live in ”.5. "I have been in France for three years, without papers. I wait my turn, I'm fine, but there are people, even with papers, who have nothing. I have a warm place to sleep, if it rains I don't get wet, my children are healthy, so am I. I'm not asking for anything else. The papers will arrive one day or another. "
Paris (France), Jan 26 (EFE/EPA), (Camera: Christophe Petit-Tesson).- French education was partly halted on Tuesday by a strike called by unions to demand better protection measures against the COVID-19 pandemic and a rise in salaries, a movement that was also joined by student organizations.FOOTAGE OF THE DEMONSTRATION IN PARIS BY FRENCH TEACHERS AND STUDENTS.
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