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Added on the 01/01/2021 13:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Thais line up to buy face masks out of the back of trucks or 'caravans' sent out across the country by Thailand's Commerce Ministry amid concerns the coronavirus or COVID-19 could spread through the Southeast Asian country. IMAGES of people queueing to buy face masks
The peak of the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in France "appears to be behind us", Prime Minister Jean Castex says, announcing that travel restrictions will be relaxed from early next month. Castex tells reporters there has been a "drop in the circulation of the virus" over the last 10 days, confirming that restrictions confining people to a 10-kilometre (six-mile, ed) radius of their homes would be dropped from May 3. SOUNDBITE
Morgue trailers sit near the University Medical Center of El Paso as this city in western Texas experiences a surge in Covid-19 cases, leading authorities to bring in mobile morgues. IMAGES
Residents of Boston, Massachusetts, line up at a Covid-19 testing site as the United States experiences a surge in coronavirus cases. 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
Red carpet, evening gowns and an array of photographers: the symbolic edition of Cannes 2020, the world's most prestigious film festival, opens for three days with the screening of Emmanuel Courcol's film "The Big Hit" ("Un triomphe" in French), with the ambition of giving life to a sector suffocated by the health crisis. IMAGES