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Johannesburg, Jul 31 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Kim Ludbrook) "Highly contagious", an orange sticker reads on the three plastic bags that cover the bodies of those who died of COVID-19 in South Africa. Is it 7,497, as the official figures say? It is not clear, but the funeral employees work non stop.FOOTAGE OF THE AVBOB FUNERAL HOME IN SOUTH AFRICA.
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.
Rome, Apr 16 (EFE) .- (Camera: Álvaro Padilla) Some 2,000 families wait for the bodies of their deceased relatives to be cremated in Rome, a situation that on Friday led to some thirty workers from the capital's funeral sector to protest the delays of the burocracy.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST.SOUNDBITES AND TRANSLATIONS OF GIOVANNI CACIOLI, NATIONAL SECRETARY FOR THE FUNERAL HOME FEDERATION:1- "It is the only city in all of Italy that asks to present an authorization in one place, so that it then goes to the City Council, which re-examines it and then issues another permit that will go back to AMA to return to whoever asks for approval."2- "At this time, around two thousand bodies are in the municipal warehouses of Flaminio and Verano according to the authorities, but it is only the tip of the iceberg, since the 200 or 300 bodies incinerated weekly have had to wait many weeks ".3- "This means leaving families who lost someone 30, 40 or 50 days ago thinking about where the husband, father or son will be. This translates into very hard psychological or existential problems."4.- "Workers cannot accept a situation like this, not because they lose money, but because they become the support of the families and cannot leave them alone."
Johannesburg, Mar 15 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Kim Ludbrook) A group of artists and activists demonstrated on Monday to ask for answers from the National Council of the Arts on the stimulus package to alleviate the crisis generated by the coronavirus pandemic in Johannesburg, South Africa.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST IN JOHANNESBURG
Bangkok, Feb 15 (EFE/EPA).- Thailand reported 143 new coronavirus infections on Monday and detected its first case of a patient infected with the South African variant of COVID-19, the Department of Disease Control (DDC) said. The infected patient, a 41 years old Thai man who traveled from Tanzania and visited Ethiopia before returning to Thailand, was undergoing mandatory quarantine at a state quarantine facility. Thai officials insisted that the new variant of the virus has so far not spread into the country. (Camera: NARONG SANGNAK).B-ROLL OF DAILY LIFE AMID COVID-19 PANDEMIC, IN BANGKOK, THAILAND.
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