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Seoul, Sep 16 (EFE/EPA).- South Korean health workers on Thursday gathered to demand guarantee of labor rights after the country's capital region reported its highest number of Covid-19 infections Wednesday.The figures are worrying as Saturday marks one of the main holiday periods of the country called Chuseok, a festival to celebrate the harvest and honor ancestors in which a large number of people travel from the capital region, where more than half of the national population lives, to other areas of the country. (Camera: JEON HEON-KYUN).SHOT LIST: SOUTH KOREAN WORKERS GATHER TO DEMAND LABOR RIGHTS IN SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA.
Quezon City, Mar 11 (EFE/EPA).- Protesters gathered Thursday outside the National Kidney and Transplant Institute in Quezon City to demand the release of relief funds for health workers serving amid the Covid-19 pandemic.Protesters claim that hospital administration has yet to release some 82-million pesos (1.4 million euros) worth of financial aid that is supposed to cover meal, transportation and living accommodation allowance for healthcare frontline workers. (Camera: ROLEX DELA PENA)SHOT LIST: RALLY OUTSIDE THE NATIONAL KIDNEY AND TRANSPLANT INSTITUTE IN QUEZON CITY, PHILIPPINES.
Mexico, Jul 1 (EFE).-Mexican health workers on Wednesday held a protest in Mexico City to demand labor guarantees and personal protection amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (Camera: MIGUEL ÁNGEL ANDRADE).FOOTAGE SHOW A PROTEST BY HEALTH WORKERS OF MEXICO DEMANDING BETTER PROTECTION AGAINST THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN MEXICO CITY.
San Salvador, Jun 12 (EFE).- (Camera: Vladimir Chicas) "Us sex workers won't die of COVID-19, but of hunger", with this phrase as a mantra, Alma Ramos is bringing food to her colleagues in San Salvador, as the pandemic leaves the 45,500 women sex workers in the country without a proper income.FOOTAGE OF ALMA RAMOS IN HER HOUSE AND GIVING FOOR TO COLLEAGUES.SOUNDBITES OF RAMOS.Translation:"I'm only helping those I can, the ones I can reach.""Discrimination and stigma are always there.""I lost my shyness because if I ask for something for myself I get embarrassed, but I don't for my colleagues.""My colleagues were worried, they had nothing to eat.""My colleagues don't have food.""Now I go to houses, I don't work in a business or a corner."
Rio de Janeiro, 27 May (EFE), (Camera: Renato Spyrro).- Hairdressing, selling fruit and home deliveries are just some of the jobs professional footballers have branched into to make ends meet during the Covid-19 pandemic. FOOTAGE OF AND STATEMENTS BY FOOTBALLERS CARLOS ALBERTO LOPES DA SILVA AND GEDEILSON VANDER ALVES DE OLIVEIRA TRANSLATIONS:ALVES DE OLIVEIRA:- "When that pandemic came and my contract was terminated in april, I remembered the people who sold fruit in residential complexes when I lived in Cuiabá and Lins because of my football career".- "Thank god i had a very good salary in football, I'm sure I won't get the same money, but it's something I can help a head of household with, that help guarantees me a way that I can keep the money I have saved, but the difference is big".- "I wake up at 6:30 in the morning, I organize my car, when I arrive he is already there, we set up the shop, I go home, change my clothes and start training. Every day, except Sundays." LOPES DA SILVA:- "I confess it's very difficult. We have to make do with what we have, we depend on football, on America. And at this moment he is standing, here at the hairdresser's, thank god, with that I can bring my wife and son their daily bread".- "In 2017 i signed the contract, but the salary was one, two, three, four months late and they didn't give us a solution and at the time my wife was pregnant and I didn't even have the money to pay the ticket. As I had to bring food, my mother gave me the hair-cutters so that i could work as a hairdresser".- "I have many hairdresser friends and they told me they would teach me. Thank god they were very patient and I was learning. That's why my second choice after football is hairdressing".
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