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Added on the 12/05/2021 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Images of people visiting the Taj Mahal as India eases Covid-19 restrictions. The Taj Mahal had shut to visitors two months ago amid a deadly surge of coronavirus infections that swept the country. IMAGES
People walk down Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles as California -- the first US state to enact a stay-at-home order just under 15 months ago -- celebrates its "reopening day" by lifting almost all pandemic-related social distancing and capacity limits. IMAGES
A pub reopens for indoor service in London, as coronavirus restrictions are eased across most of the UK despite concerns over the spread of a more transmissible Covid variant. Full indoor hospitality in restaurants and cafes also returns, and cinemas, theatres and sports venues are to open their doors for the first time in months. IMAGES
A man receives the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus at the Hospital Posadas in Buenos Aires as Argentina launches its Covid-19 vaccination campaign, with frontline healthcare workers given priority. IMAGES
Frontline healthcare workers receive the Covid-19 vaccine at the Memorial Healthcare System Hospital in Miramar, Florida. Hospital officials say they expect to vaccinate 1,100 to 1,200 people per day at the facility, as the United States kicks off a mass vaccination drive, hoping to turn the tide on the world's biggest coronavirus outbreak. IMAGES
Andrea Ammon, Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, says in an online interview with AFP that potential vaccines developed against Covid-19 could "optimisitically" be brought into use in the EU in the first quarter of 2021, emphasising that she could not be certain. SOUNDBITE