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Prague, Jul 21 (EFE), (Camera: Martin Divisek).- St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague is home to a dying tradition, being one of only four sites in the world where the bells are rung manually by volunteers every Sunday. Some of the bells at the cathedral in the Czech capital are over 100 years old. However, with the coming of the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown enforced in the central European nation, the bells only rang out four times in several weeks."It was strange for the bells to stop ringing then, we could not imagine it since, in the past, the bells chimed even in times of war," said the chief bell ringer, Tomas Starecky.Starecky has been ringing bells since 1979, a task he performs "with love, joy and voluntarily."He is in charge of a team of twenty-one people who operate the bells an average of 130 times a year. FOOTAGE OF ST VITUS BELLS.SOUNDBITES OF:-MILOS SIMON, BELL RINGER:"I've been ringing the bells for six years. Why do I do it? Because I enjoy it. How did I get here? The chief bell ringer is a runner, and so am I. About eight years ago we talked, he said he was a bell ringer and I asked him if I could come and see. I came several times and after two years I asked him if I could make them sound too. Then I was coming for several months to train. I have done it since then and I love it. "-TOMAS STARECKY, CHIEF BELL RINGER:"I've been here since 1979, for an incredible 40 years. Under my leadership, over 150 bell ringers have rung with me. If you ask me why this is important. This is important precisely because we are one of the allegedly four cathedrals in the world, of course in Europe, that have their own live bell ringers. And it's enthusiasm, hard life, sacrificing everything possible, but it's worth it.""New candidates to be bell ringers will appear in our environment. There is no point in convincing someone. That person will know for himself if he wants to help us and eventually, he will become one of us. This is how the bell ringers are recruited, around one or two a year. And that maintains continuity. "
Prague, March 18 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Martin Divisek) The Czech Republic, a country of 10.7 million inhabitants, is currently the EU country with the highest infection rate with 1,572 per 100,000 inhabitants. In the last 24 hours, almost 12,000 new cases were detected, 18% less than a week ago, while active infections exceeded 87,700, of which 8,910 were hospitalized, a figure that has remained stable so far this month. The current number of those vaccinated is 1.2 million, 11% of the population over 16. FOOTAGE OF COVID-19 VACCINATION IN PRAGUE.
Prague (Czech Republic), Mar 17 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Martin Divisek).-The city of Prague is preparing to open a new Covid-19 vaccination centre with the capacity to vaccinate between 200 and 1,000 people a day. FOOTAGE THE PRESENTATION OF THE COVID-19 VACCINATION CENTER AT THE PRAGUE CONGRESS CENTER.
St. Petersburg (Russia), Mar 4 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Anatoly Maltsev) St. Petersburg inaugurated on Thursday the Sad Angel monument by Russian sculptor Roman Shustrov, who died in May 2020 because of the coronavirus, dedicated to medical workers who also died from the pandemic. FOOTAGE OF THE INAUGURATION OF THE MONUMENT IN SAINT PETERSBURG. Keywords: efe, international, epa, Russia, St, Petersburg, coronavirus
Prague, Ma 2r (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Martin Divizek) The lockdown and the measures against Covid-19 have led to the temporary closure of hotels in the Czech Republic, an opportunity used by the councilors of Prague, the capital of the country with the most infections in the EU, to rent these tourist accommodations and host there to homeless positives.FOOTAGE OF HOTELS HOSTING HOMELESS PEOPLE WITH COVID-19SOUNDBITES OF HOMELESS DENISA PROCHAZKOVATRANSLATION"Firstly, they are very nice. Secondly, they take good care of us here. We have everything we need here, I cannot complain. I am here with a friend that I love. I want people to recover from the pandemic, that everyone is healthy, that people be good to themselves, that there is no flu or illness, that everyone can cope with it. "
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