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Bangkok, Jul 27 (EFE/EPA).- 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.The health data showed that the country, the first to detect the virus outside China in January 2020, added 14,150 new cases and 118 deaths over the last 24 hours. (Camera: NARONG SANGNAK).SHOT LIST: THAI RAILWAY POLICE WALK INSIDE A PASSENGER TRAIN WHILE WAITING FOR COVID-19 PATIENTS ARRIVING TO BOARD A TRAIN BRINGING THEM BACK TO THEIR HOMELAND PROVINCE; AND THAI COVID-19 PATIENTS ARRIVE TO BOARD TRAINS BRINGING THEM BACK TO THEIR HOMELAND PROVINCE, AT THE RANGSIT TRAIN STATION ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF BANGKOK, THAILAND.
Wuhan, Jan 23 (EFE/EPA).- Wuhan marked Saturday the one-year anniversary of the start of a strict 76-day lockdown of the city, where the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that causes the COVID-19 disease, was first discovered before spreading across the world into a deadly global pandemic. (Camera: ROMAN PILIPEY).SHOT LIST: DAILY LIFE OF THE PEOPLE IN THE CHINESE CITY OF WUHAN, CHINA.
Tokyo, Jan 15 (EFE/EPA).- Japan is marking a year since its first confirmed Covid-19 cases with a second state of emergency in several region, including the capital, amid a surge in cases and deaths.According to official data, around 40% of all confirmed Covid-19 cases and related deaths occurred in the last month alone.The first known case of Covid-19 in Japan was declared on 15 January 2020, although reports of a suspected case came the previous day. The case was linked to a Chinese resident of Kanagawa prefecture who had recently visited Wuhan, in China, from where the virus is believed to have originated. (Camera: KIMIMASA MAYAMA/FRANCK ROBICHON).SHOT LIST: PEDESTRIANS WEARING PROTECTIVE MASKS IN TOKYO, JAPAN.
Sun rises in Wuhan, the Chinese city where Covid-19 was first detected, a year after China confirming its first death from the virus. Nearly two million deaths later, the pandemic is out of control across much of the world, leaving tens of millions ill, a pulverised global economy and recriminations flying between nations. IMAGES
Beijing, Dec 30 (EFE/EPA).- China on Wednesday reported 24 new Covid-19 cases a year after first cases of a new disease in the Chinese city of Wuhan were identified.The hypotheses on the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus have shifted and changed in the year since the outbreak was first detected, but scientists have yet to land on a definitive answer.There are increasing warnings from the scientific community, however, that the public should not begin to underestimate the continued danger posed by the virus even with the advent of the first vaccines. (Camera: WU HONG).B-ROLL OF DAILY LIFE IN BEIJING, CHINA, AMID THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK.