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Hanoi, Feb 15 (EFE/EPA).- Vietnamese people stood in queue on Monday, patiently waiting to be given Chinese calligraphy written on red paper. It is a tradition of Vietnamese people to display calligraphic paintings to decorate their houses and to ask for good luck during Tet, or Vietnamese Lunar New Year. (Camera: LINH LUONG THAI).SHOT LIST: ARTISTS PAINT CALLIGRAPHY AT STALLS AT THE COMPLEX OF VAN MIEU (TEMPLE OF LITERATURE) IN HANOI, VIETNAM, DURING THE FIRST DAYS OF TET OR VIETNAMESE LUNAR NEW YEAR.
Hanoi (Vietnam), Feb 8 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Linh Luong Thai).- Hundreds of people gathered at Hanoi street markets ahead of the celebrations of the New Lunar Year, which will take place on February 12. FOOTAGE OF NEW LUNAR YEAR PREPARATIONS IN HANOI, VIETNAM.
Hanoi, Feb 2 (EFE/EPA).- Vietnamese are gearing up ahead of Lunar New Year celebrations. It is customary for people to buy peach blossoms, apricot blossoms, and kumquat trees in preparations for the Lunar New Year, widely considered the most important holiday for the Vietnamese. The Lunar New Year falls on 12 February 2020, marking the beginning of the Year of the Ox. (Camera: LINH LUONG THAI). B-ROLL OF PEOPLE BUY PEACH BLOSSOMS, APRICOT BLOSSOMS, AND KUMQUAT TREES AT A GARDEN IN PREPARATIONS AHEAD OF LUNAR NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS, IN HANOI, VIETNAM.
Artists in Beijing perform a dragon dance to celebrate Lunar New Year, as the country's Year of the Dragon kicks off this Saturday. IMAGES
Crowds are seen at Beijing's railway station as people travel home ahead of the Chinese New Year holiday. IMAGES
"I think we're coming to that point where we can look at COVID-19 in the same way we look at seasonal influenza" says Dr Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO's Health Emergencies Programme. Speaking at a WHO press conference, Ryan projects that COVID will, this year, become "a threat to health, a virus that will continue to kill, but a virus that is not disrupting our society or disrupting our hospital systems." SOUNDBITE