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The World Health Organization strengthens its air quality guidelines as WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says air pollution "contributes to seven million deaths a year." The WHO's new guidelines recommend air quality levels for six pollutants, including ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide and carbon monoxide. SOUNDBITE
Jerusalem, Sep 1 (EFE / EPA) .- Some 2.5 million Israeli students began Wednesday the school year after the coronavirus cabinet approved the plan for going back to school on Monday.(Camera: ABIR SULTAN)SHOT LIST: CHILDREN IN A SCHOOL IN JERUSALEM, ISRAEL.
Ho Chi Minh ,May 26 (EFE).- Vietnam will try to acquire 150 million Covid-19 vaccine doses before 2022 to vaccinate three-quarters of its population, which in recent weeks has seen the worst wave of local infections since the start of the pandemic."We started negotiations very early, in May 2020. Now we are trying to get 150 million doses by the end of the year," Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said in a statement reported Wednesday by state newspaper Viet Nam News. (Camera: ERIC SAN JUAN).B-ROLL OF THE CITY OF HO CHI MINH, VIETNAM.
Kolkata, May 4 (EFE/EPA).- India on Tuesday surpassed 20 million coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, registering 357,229 new cases in the last 24 hours, while a virulent second wave has strained the country's healthcare system.The South Asian country also reported 3,449 deaths in 24 hours, bringing the total number of fatalities to 222,408, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Health, while experts believe that the actual figures could be significantly higher.Tuesday's figures represent a fall in the number of infections for the third consecutive day, after India recorded more than 400,000 cases on Saturday. However, the number of deaths have remained on its upward trend. (Camera: PIYAL ADHIKARY).SHOT LIST: DAILY LIFE IN KOLKATA, INDIA, AMID CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC.
Srinagar, May 4 (EFE/EPA).- After battling needle-phobia and ignoring many vaccination myths, a fearful Shumaila Firdous sat in a chair with Islamic devotional songs blaring on her headphones.She squeezed her eyes tight as a nurse came with a cotton swab and a 0.5 ml AD syringe at a community hall-turned-immunization center in Kashmir as India reels under a devastating second wave of the coronavirus.India on Tuesday surpassed 20 million coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, registering 357,229 new cases in the last 24 hours, while a virulent second wave has strained the country's healthcare system.The South Asian country also reported 3,449 deaths in 24 hours, bringing the total number of fatalities to 222,408, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Health, while experts believe that the actual figures could be significantly higher. (Camera: FAROOQ KHAN).B-ROLL OF THE CITY OF SRINAGAR IN INDIAN KASHMIR DURING COVID-19 LOCKDOWN.
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