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In what Italy's prime minister said was 'not an easy decision,' PM Giuseppe Conte has put the country on lockdown for the holidays. Business Insider reports Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte told reporters that experts fear there will be a jump in COVID-19 cases over Christmas. Italy wasn't the only European country to tighten restrictions over the holidays — the UK and Germany have both announced heightened coronavirus restrictions. Johns Hopkins University data reports that as of Saturday, Italy had recorded over 1.9 million confirmed cases of coronavirus since the pandemic began. Thus far, nearly 68,000 deaths from COVID-19 have been reported in Italy.
Rome restaurants are open for business as the country enters 'Phase Two' of its virus confinement measures, with establishments offering take-away options only. IMAGES
Supporters of Austria's Far-right Freedom Party gather to protest against mandatory coronavirus vaccinations. Next week, the country will impose a partial lockdown which constitute the toughest restrictions introduced in Europe in recent weeks as Covid-19 cases surge continent-wide. IMAGES
Bangkok / Manila / Hanoi / Jakarta, Sep 15 (EFE/EPA).- In its worst wave of the pandemic, Southeast Asia has resigned itself to living with Covid-19 and is committed to relaxing restrictions to revive the ailing economy and give its exhausted population a break.Countries such as Vietnam, Thailand or Malaysia, which kept Covid-19 low in 2020, have been facing an exponential increase in cases for months due to the contagious delta variant, originally detected in India. (Camera: ARCHIVE).ARCHIVE FOOTAGE OF THE COVID-19 SITUATIONS IN BANGKOK, THAILAND; MANILA, PHILIPPINES; HANOI, VIETNAM AND JAKARTA, INDONESIA.
Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Aug 7 (EFE).- (Camera: Jorge Piñeiro) Neither the cold and rainy summer in Galicia nor the fifth wave of the coronavirus pandemic have managed to discourage thousands of pilgrims from taking the Camino de Santiago, which in July counted more than 39,000 pilgrims, mostly of national origin.FOOTAGE OF PILGRIMS AT THE CAMINO DE SANTIAGO IN SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, SPAIN.
Manila, Aug 6 (EFE/EPA) .- Manila began its third Covid-19 lockdown on Friday for at least two weeks to stop the highly infectious Delta variant in the Philippine capital. (Camera: ROLEX DELA PENA).B-ROLL OF SECURITY CHECKPOINTS IN MANILA, PHILIPPINES, DURING COVID-19 LOCKDOWN.
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