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Added on the 16/03/2021 21:39:55 - Copyright : Euronews EN
A Christmas market in Vienna opens as a partial confinement, in place since last month due to soaring Covid cases, comes to an end. However, only the vaccinated will be able to regain their freedoms, those who have not received the required doses will have to remain at home. IMAGES
American visitors drive across the Canada-US border, cheering the reopening of the world's longest land boundary 17 months after all non-essential travel was halted to slow the spread of the coronavirus. "It was beautiful," says Richard Antaki, who plans to revisit Montreal, where he lived for a decade. IMAGES N°9KW2C9
Residents of Pretoria get vaccinated against Covid-19, as South Africa struggles with a third wave of infections. The country, the worst affected by the pandemic in Africa, has seen the daily figures for new cases double over the past two weeks, while hospital admissions have climbed by nearly 60 percent over the same period. IMAGES
Tourists exit Barcelona airport on the day Spain opens its borders to vaccinated travellers from all over the world, hoping an influx of visitors will revitalise its all-important tourism sector which has been battered by the coronavirus pandemic. IMAGES
As Latin America approaches one million deaths due to Covid-19, Brazilians in Sao Paulo visit the Villa-Lobos "mega drive-thru" vaccination center. IMAGES
Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador receives the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19 during the morning press conference. IMAGES