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Colombo (Sri Lanka), Oct 8 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Chamila Karunarathne) Around 100,000 health workers began a five-hour strike across the country this Friday demanding solutions and the allocation of a payment for risk of covid-19, in addition to other demands.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTESTS IN A COLOMBO HOSPITAL, SRI LANKA.
Colombo, Sep 22 (EFE/EPA).- Sri Lanka's health workers staged a protest Wednesday demanding proper facilities and protective equipment needed for Covid -19 related works, additional allowance for overtime work, and special Covid -19 allowance. The trade union action was carried out in most government hospitals throughout the country, according to the relevant trade unions. With the third wave of the pandemic hitting Sri Lanka, health workers too have engaged in a series of protests and demonstrations advancing their demands while the government has not positively responded to their claims. (Camera: CHAMILA KARUNARATHNE).SHOT LIST: HEALTH WORKERS HOLDING PLACARDS STAGE A PROTEST DEMANDING SOLUTIONS TO SEVERAL OF THEIR WORK-RELATED ISSUES, OUTSIDE THE NATIONAL HOSPITAL IN COLOMBO, SRI LANKA.
Seoul, Sep 16 (EFE/EPA).- South Korean health workers on Thursday gathered to demand guarantee of labor rights after the country's capital region reported its highest number of Covid-19 infections Wednesday.The figures are worrying as Saturday marks one of the main holiday periods of the country called Chuseok, a festival to celebrate the harvest and honor ancestors in which a large number of people travel from the capital region, where more than half of the national population lives, to other areas of the country. (Camera: JEON HEON-KYUN).SHOT LIST: SOUTH KOREAN WORKERS GATHER TO DEMAND LABOR RIGHTS IN SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA.
Colombo, Sep 9 (EFE / EPA) .- Sri Lankan authorities conducted Covid-19 tests in Colombo on Thursday as the country faces its third wave of contagions.Sri Lanka has extended confinement throughout the island until September 13 as a preventive measure to avoid contagion.Since the beginning of the pandemic, Sri Lanka has registered more than 474,000 infections and 10,689 deaths from Covid-19.(Camera: CHAMILA KARUNARATHNE)SHOT LIST: COVID-19 TESTING IN COLOMBO, SRI LANKA.
Colombo, Aug 18 (EFE/EPA).- The Sri Lankan government has imposed an island-wide midnight quarantine curfew from 10 pm to 4 am until further notice in order to slow down the spread of the coronavirus. According to health authorities in Sri Lanka, 171 Covid-19 deaths were reported in Sri Lanka on August 17, the highest number recorded in a day. Meanwhile, the Sri Lanka Medical Association has called on the government to close the country for at least two weeks to prevent an increase in Covid-19 patients. (Camera: CHAMILA KARUNARATHNE)SHOT LIST: HEALTH AUTHORITIES CARRY OUT COVID-19 TESTS IN COLOMBO, SRI LANKA.