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Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne holds a meeting on Covid-19 via videoconference with the prefects and directors of regional health agencies, as Europe currently experiences a seventh wave of the epidemic. IMAGES
Thousands of demonstrators from across the US march in Washington, DC, to decry Covid-19 mandates. Mostly maskless, the protesters walk from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial in a city that has adopted mask and vaccine mandates. IMAGES
French education professionals demonstrate in Bordeaux as part of a nationwide protest to denounce the Covid health "protocols" in schools. While the education ministry says almost 40 percent of primary school teachers have walked out, top union Snuipp puts the figure at 75 percent with one primary school in two closed for the day. IMAGES
French professor Didier Raoult, director of the Marseille university hospital and microbiologist, has been sanctioned with a "reprimand" by the disciplinary chamber of the Order of Physicians of New Aquitaine, who analysed two complaints filed against him in late 2020. IMAGES
Santiago de Chile, Sep 30 (EFE).- Chile lifted Thursday night the state of emergency decreed by the Government to curb the pandemic, ending the nationwide curfew that was imposed since March 2020.The South American country recorded on Thursday 895 new COVID-19 cases, the highest daily tally in six weeks. (Camera: JOSE CAVIEDES).B-ROLL OF PEOPLE GOING OUT TO BARS IN SANTIAGO DE CHILE, CHILE, AFTER THE GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES THE END OF THE STATE OF EMERGENCY.
Panama, Sep 29 (EFE), (CAMERA: Carlos Lemos) .- The president of Panama, Laurentino Cortizo, participated in a tribute for nurses who have worked during the Covid-19 crisis.