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UPI reports Ohio State University found nearly 40% of US residents plan to attend gatherings of ten or more people this holiday season. Despite concerns over the spread of COVID-19, one-third of respondents said they wouldn't ask attendees at holiday parties with family or friends to wear masks. The data showed that just over 25% indicated that they wouldn't practice social distancing, either. Figures from Johns Hopkins University report nearly 10.5 million people nationally have been sickened by the virus. More than 240,000 have died from it.
Alicante, Jun 23 (EFE).- Several cities in the Spanish province of Alicante closed their beaches Wednesday night to avoid crowds during the Saint John's Eve celebration, in order to comply with the COVID-19 restrictions. (Camera: EFE).B-ROLL OF THE POSTIGUET BEACH AND THE ARENAL-BOL BEACH IN ALICANTE, SPAIN.
San Francisco, Jun 15 (EFE/EPA).- California rolled back most of its restrictions put in place in response to the COVID-19 pandemic Tuesday as vaccinated residents can now go without masks in most settings. (Camera: JOHN MABANGLO).SHOT LIST: ICONIC CABLE CAR AT THE POWELL STREET, MASKLESS PEDESTRIANS WALK ACROSS AN INTERSECTION AT NORTH BEACH DISTRICT, AND THE NORTH BEACH BRASS BAND PLAY MUSIC OUTSIDE THE DEVIL'S ACRE BAR AND E' TUTTO QUA! ITALIAN RESTAURANT IN THE BEACH DISTRICT IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, US.
Surges of COVID-19 patients are threatening to overwhelm hospitals across the nation. CNN reports at least 123,639 people across the country were in the hospital with the novel coronavirus on Saturday. The COVID Tracking Project says that marks the 32nd consecutive day that the number of hospitalizations has exceeded 100,000. Cases skyrocketed after the Thanksgiving holiday. The fallout form Christmas and New Year's celebrations are still unfolding. Johns Hopkins University data reveals that as of Saturday, more than 20.4 million people have been infected with the virus in the US. At least 350,186 people have died from the illness.
Damascus, Dec 8 (EFE/EPA).- Syria’s agriculture minister Mohamed Hassan Qatana has called on the country’s citizens to plant wheat - even at home - in a bid to alleviate a severe bread shortage in the war-torn nation.“We are under a blockade and the cultivation of every piece of land will help achieve food security for each family, thus relieving the country of the burden of imports,” Qatana told Efe during an interview at his office in the ministry headquarters in Damascus.FOOTAGE OF A BREAD SHOP.SOUNDBITES OF MOHAMED HASAN QATANA.Translations: 1.- "It's probably not a crisis, but a problem, because Syria is famous for being a country of wheat."2.- "We always cultivate around 1,800,000 hectares, but during the war, the cultivated land dropped to 1,100,000 hectares, and last year we recovered to 1,200,000."3.- "The cultivated land suffered great problems due to the decrease in water resources, which caused the drop in wheat production to 2.8 million tons of annual wheat compared to what was produced before the war, an average of 3.2 million tons."4.- "We are in a state of war, and we are under a blockade, and the cultivation of every piece of land will help achieve food security for the Syrian wherever they live. Why can't every Syrian citizen have a field to grow wheat for their food self-sufficiency?"
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