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Added on the 07/10/2020 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
"Welcome to mandate America," "essential yesterday, unemployed today," "no vax mandate": Holding up signs and flags, employees in New York City prepare to march across the Brooklyn Bridge, heading to City Hall to protest the Covid-19 vaccine mandate. The mandate applies to municipal workers, who now have less than a week to get their Covid-19 vaccines or go on unpaid leave IMAGES
Bangkok, Jul 27 (EFE/EPA).- Hundreds of taxi drivers on Tuesday called on the Thai government to provide assistance after the impact of the COVID-19 situation affected more than 20,000 taxi drivers who do not have access to government assistance.Thailand on Tuesday reported more than 14,000 coronavirus infections and nearly 120 deaths due to the virus as pressure on hospitals intensifies amid the country's worst so far Covid-19 outbreak.Authorities have sounded an alert that hospitals in Bangkok were at a critical point with 100 percent occupancy. (Camera: NARONG SANGNAK).SHOT LIST: TAXI DRIVERS PROTEST AMID THE SURGE OF COVID-19 CASES, IN BANGKOK, THAILAND.
New York City honors its essential workers during the Covid-19 pandemic in a "Hometown Heroes" ticker-tape parade in Lower Manhattan. Among those partaking are Eric Adams, the newly-declared winner of the New York mayoral race's Democratic primary, and Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse who became the first American to receive an authorized coronavirus vaccine. IMAGES
Sanaa (Yemen), Feb 1 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Yahya Arhab) Yemen's medical personnel take to the streets of the UN offices in the capital, Sanaa, to protest against the strict restrictions imposed by Saudi Arabia on fuel imports, which has hampered the operations of hospitals and fuel-dependent water supply systems essential for disease prevention and health response capacity in war-torn Yemen.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST.
A woman has been charged with reckless endangerment after plowing her car into a Manhattan protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Newser reports 52-year-old Kathleen Casillo was driving with her 29-year-old daughter when she said demonstrators began banging on her BMW. Demonstrators were protesting in support of ICE detainees on hunger strike. Casillo says she panicked and hit the gas. Six people have hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. A demonstrator was charged for allegedly interfering with emergency workers responding to the scene.