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British Transport Minister Grant Shapps says that Britain is willing to step in to host the Champions League football final, after the government placed Turkey on a coronavirus travel red list. SOUNDBITE
Moscow, Apr 8 (EFE), (Camera: Ignacio Ortega).- The most iconic grocery store in Russia, Eliseyevskiy, which was founded in Moscow in 1901, will close its doors due to the coronavirus pandemic.FOOTAGE OF ELISEYEVSKIY.
Merida (Spain), Jul 22 (EFE), (Camera: Jero Morales).- Mexican actor and playwright David Gaitán talked about civil rights and the pandemic in an interview with Efe ahead the presentation of its work Antígona, which will open the Mérida International Theater Festival in Spain.SOUNDBITES OF STAGE DIRECTOR DAVID GAITÁN:"The pandemic has brought issues regarding social inequality to the surface: the possibility (or not) of staying home as people have been asked. So for those who live day to day... this is a brutal message, because now, apart from every day's scarcity, they have become the 'villains' of the story since they don't stay at home. And the got a very difficult message from authorities: 'If you don't stay home, you are putting people's health and also yours at risk."
Rio de Janeiro, May 8 (EFE), (Camera: Dhavid Miranda/Antonio Lacerda).- In Rio de Janeiro, hospitals are collapsing amidst hundreds of patients waiting for care. The harsh reality has hit the favelas, where the poorest live, as many die in the waiting line for an Intensive Care Unit. The crisis that the iconic Brazilian city has been experiencing for years is more severe amid the COVID-19 pandemic.FOOTAGE OF ALESSANDRA ROCHA, DEPUTY HEALTH COORDINATOR OF THE CITY OF RIO:TRANSLATION: "MANY PEOPLE ARE DYING IN THE SAME LINE, BECAUSE (THE DOCTORS) HAVE NO WAY OF THINKING 'I'M GOING TO LET THEM LIVE OR DIE' SINCE THEY DIDN'T EVEN GET CONSIDERED FOR A PLACE IN A ICU BED. THOSE PEOPLE ARE DYING WAITING FOR THAT SLOT. CARLOS VASCONCELLOS, SPOKESPERSON FOR THE RIVER DOCTORS' UNION:TRANSLATION: "THE SERVICES WERE OUTSOURCED, PEOPLE LOST STABILITY AND THERE WAS A LACK OF INTEREST FROM THE MOST SPECIALIZED PROFESSIONALS TO MAKE A CAREER IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR (...) THIS GENERATED A DISORGANIZATION AT THE TIME OF THE CRISIS AND THERE IS LITTLE CREDIBILITY THAT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE BEING MOBILIZED TO WORK HAVE EFFECTIVE RIGHTS SUCH AS EVEN THAT OF QUARANTINE"."THERE ARE SPEECHES BY THE PRESIDENT SAYING THAT PEOPLE SHOULD GO TO THE STREETS TO WORK BECAUSE 70 % OF THE POPULATION WOULD BE INFECTED AND THERE WOULD BE DEATH, THAT WAS NATURAL, BUT THE ECONOMY COULD NOT STOP".
ITV Head of Studios Kevin Lygo says that 'Love Island' is close to being cancelled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
At the start of his appearance at the UK's Covid-19 inquiry, Prime Minister and former Chancellor Rishi Sunak says he is "deeply sorry... to all of those who lost loved ones, family members, through the pandemic." SOUNDBITE
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