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Added on the 08/04/2022 15:55:48 - Copyright : France 24 EN
Residents get tested for Covid-19 in their residential compounds under lockdown in Shanghai. Shanghai, a city of 25 million and China's economic engine room, has become the heart of the country's biggest outbreak since the peak of the first virus wave in Wuhan over two years ago, rattling the country's adherence to a strict zero-Covid policy. IMAGES
Images of skyline in the eastern district of Shanghai as millions of people in China's financial hub are confined to their homes on Monday. The eastern half of the city goes into lockdown to curb the nation's biggest Covid outbreak. IMAGES
A long line of people snakes across a park in Washington, DC, at a makeshift Covid-19 test site near the White House, as people prepare for holiday festivities, just a few days away. IMAGES
New Delhi residents line up to get nose and throat swabs at a Covid-19 testing centre, as new data showed the biggest daily jump in new infections since the pandemic began. Hopes at the start of the year that the outbreak may be subsiding in the vast nation of 1.3 billion people have been dashed in recent weeks with a fresh wave of new cases. ++COMPLETES V045_97E2B4++ IMAGES
New Delhi residents line up to get nose and throat swabs at a Covid-19 testing centre, as new data showed the biggest daily jump in new infections since the pandemic began. Hopes at the start of the year that the outbreak may be subsiding in the vast nation of 1.3 billion people have been dashed in recent weeks with a fresh wave of new cases. On Monday health ministry data showed new infections exceeding 100,000 for the first time. IMAGES
New Yorkers line up outside a truck offering Covid-19 testing in Corona, a neighborhood in Queens where the coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc last year. One year ago, on March 1, 2020, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo confirmed the state's first known coronavirus case. The next morning, he and Mayor Bill de Blasio held a joint briefing where they to talked about the importance of testing. IMAGES