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Colombo, Sep 9 (EFE / EPA) .- Sri Lankan authorities conducted Covid-19 tests in Colombo on Thursday as the country faces its third wave of contagions.Sri Lanka has extended confinement throughout the island until September 13 as a preventive measure to avoid contagion.Since the beginning of the pandemic, Sri Lanka has registered more than 474,000 infections and 10,689 deaths from Covid-19.(Camera: CHAMILA KARUNARATHNE)SHOT LIST: COVID-19 TESTING IN COLOMBO, SRI LANKA.
Colombo, Aug 18 (EFE/EPA).- The Sri Lankan government has imposed an island-wide midnight quarantine curfew from 10 pm to 4 am until further notice in order to slow down the spread of the coronavirus. According to health authorities in Sri Lanka, 171 Covid-19 deaths were reported in Sri Lanka on August 17, the highest number recorded in a day. Meanwhile, the Sri Lanka Medical Association has called on the government to close the country for at least two weeks to prevent an increase in Covid-19 patients. (Camera: CHAMILA KARUNARATHNE)SHOT LIST: HEALTH AUTHORITIES CARRY OUT COVID-19 TESTS IN COLOMBO, SRI LANKA.
Bangkok, Jul 14 (EFE/EPA).- Thailand ordered the suspension of Covid-19 tests on immigrant workers, confined since late June and one of the most worrying sources of infection, an NGO said Wednesday.The Migrant Working Group association, which represents 30 local NGOs in favor of immigrant rights, accused the Labor Ministry of halting tests, according to a document dated Jul. 5 that cites a "lack of resources and medical personnel" as reasons for the measure.Thailand faces its worst wave of infections and deaths since the pandemic began and has implemented a series of restrictions and partial confinements to stop the advance of the outbreak, linked in part to the delta variant. (Camera: ARCHIVE).ARCHIVE FOOTAGE SHOWS VACCINATION DRIVES IN BANGKOK; AND WORKERS LIVING IN A CONSTRUCTION CAMP QUARENTINED UNDER MEASURES TO CONTAIN THE SPREAD OF COVID-19, IN BANGKOK, THAILAND.
La Paz, Mar 19 (EFE).- Thousands of people took to the streets of La Paz Friday against "repression" of the ruling party and the arrest of former president Jeanine Áñez.Áñez's family on Wednesday denounced that the former interim president was suffering heart problems with high blood pressure and that the authorities did not authorize her transfer to a clinic. (Camera: GINA BALDIVIESO).SHOT LIST: DEMONSTRATIONS IN SUPPORT OF FORMER PRESIDENT JEANINE ÁÑEZ IN LA PAZ, BOLIVIA.
Bolivia's former interim president Jeanine Anez leaves the prosecutor's office after she was arrested on terrorism and sedition charges over what the government claims were a coup attempt against her predecessor and political rival Evo Morales. IMAGES
La Paz, Mar 13 (EFE) .- (Camera: César Gonzales) Former interim president of Bolivia Jeanine Áñez was transferred on Saturday under strong security to the headquarters of the Special Force to Fight Crime (FELCC ) in La Paz, where the Minister of Government, Eduardo Del Castillo Del Carpio, indicated that in no case is any type of political persecution being carried out.FOOTAGE OF THE ARRIVAL OF AÑEZ TO THE AIRPORTSOUNDBITES FROM THE PRESS CONFERENCE BY DEL CARPIOTRANSLATION"To the Bolivian people... (I want to tell them) that the Bolivian Police has done his job and materialized an arrest warrant ordered by the public ministery from a process that began last December by the coup suffered by our country. The crimes that are being investigated are sedition, conspiracy and others. The judges will continue this investigation and will determine the legal status of the people arrested: two ex Ministers, from the Justice Department, Mr. Coimbra, and from the Energy department, Mr. Guzmán. And also former senator Jeanine Añez. Three people suspect of conspiration and sedition in our country. It's all being investigated now. We are not doing any kind of political persecution."
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