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Added on the 28/10/2020 13:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Brussels, Oct 19 (EFE) - Restaurants and cafes were closed on the first Monday after new measures issued by the Belgian government to try to slow the spread of coronavirus. Last Friday, Belgium announced a curfew between midnight and five in the morning and the closure of all cafes and restaurants for a month.FOOTAGE IN BELGIUM
Online retail giant Amazon has reached an agreement with the European Commission to close two inquiries into anti-competitive tactics, notably using third party seller data to improve its own sales, as announced by the bloc's competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager. Vestager says that the Commission has "accepted commitments offered by Amazon" which address its concerns about "concerns about Amazon's practises and its e-commerce marketplace". SOUNDBITE
The cast and crew of Palme d'Or contender "Close" by Belgian director Lukas Dhont, who won the Camera d'Or newcomer award in 2018, walk the red carpet at the 75th Cannes film festival. IMAGES
Santo Domingo, Oct 10 (EFE).- The Minister of Tourism of Dominican Republic announced Sunday that the arrivals of tourists exceeded the pre-pandemic levels for the first time, a milestone that secured the recovery of the main economic sector of the Caribbean nation.Not only was September's figure 14 percent higher than the same month in 2019, but it was also an all-time record for the country, surpassing by 0.5 percent the figure recorded in 2018, the once highest record in the country’s history. (Camera: ORLANDO BARRÍA). SHOTLIST: AERIAL SHOTS OF THE BEACHES IN BOCA CHICA BEACH, SANTO DOMINGO, THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.
L'Hospitalet del Llobregat (Spain), Sep 29 (EFE).- The Department of Health of Catalonia will progressively close a third of its large vaccination points, going from the current 60 to only 19, in a progressive process that has already started with the dismantling of some of them.FOOTAGE OF THE VACCINATION POINT IN L'HOSPITALE DE LLOBREGAT, BARCELONA, SPAIN.