Description
Added on the 14/05/2020 17:56:37 - Copyright : France 24 EN
European Commission vice-president Valdis Dombrovskis announces details of an 18-billion-euro ($18-billion) economic support package to get Ukraine through 2023, which it hopes will be approved by EU member states. SOUNDBITE
Singapore, Jun 9 (EFE/EPA).- The construction industry in Singapore has been badly hit by travel restrictions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Travel restrictions on India and Bangladesh, where a majority of construction workers are from, have resulted in a shortage of manpower and a delay in the completion dates of many government-built apartments. (Camera: WALLACE WOON).B-ROLL OF A CONSTRUCTION SITE IN SINGAPORE.
The first patients receive injections against Covid-19 in a large vaccination site that has just opened inside a convention centre at Disneyland Paris, normally Europe's biggest tourist attraction currently closed because of the pandemic. IMAGES
Caracas, Venezuela Sep 10 (EFE), (Camera: Jackdwin Sáez).- Blanca, Ángel and Alí can't wait for Monday. They are elderly people who live alone in Caracas, hard hot by the pandemic and the crisis but, at the beginning of the week, they receive meals for the next five days from the Good Neighbour, a solidarity initiative that helps 1,000 people per month.FOOTAGE OF "GOOD NEIGHBOUR" VOLUNTEERS DELIVERING FOOD AND MASK PRODUCTION:SOUNDBITES OF:-BLANCA DÍAZ:"We receive a pension of some 400,000 bolivars, which is equivalent to 1.30 dollars per month. What can a person do with 1,30 dollars per month?-VERÓNICA GÓMEZ, JOURNALIST AND VOLUNTEER OF GOOD NEIGHBOUR:"No, I don't want to go to nursing homes. I want to go to the houses of those old people who don't have their children here because they had to leave the country.""Little by little, we have grown and that 50 meals now have turned into 1,000 meals per week. Today we deliver food to 200 people every week. They alternate so those who receive their meals this week won't get them next week but in 15 days so this way we can deliver meals to 1,000 people during a month.""Most of them are retired, their children live abroad and they're over 60. In our database, most of them are between 60 and 70 years old...They are alone at home and the neighbours are who register them and, on some occasions, the neighbours were the ones helping them so when they knew about the Good Neighbour they saw it as economic relief for themselves. They now know that, apart from the community, they have other people who can help them.""In a recent interview with a friend, he asked me 'do you see these old people worse now?' And I said "A lot." Some of them, 5 months ago, looked impeccable, shaved, with their (clean) clothes...the clothes are now too big, they don't shave, they don't tuck in their shirts...They are alone, they don't speak with anyone. I always say that the best part of the Good Neighbour is not the food but the company. They even have our personal numbers."-ANGELO RANGEL, LEADER OF MASK INITIATIVE IN CARACAS:"A month ago we wanted to start the production of masks. The initiative was born due to the need because there aren't masks. It is uncomfortable because we are showing a reality that shouldn't exist, I mean, it should be a state that guarantees all this."
Caracas Sep 10 (EFE) (CAMERA: Jackdwin Sáez) .- Local aid networks strive to combat the Covid-19 crisis handing out food packages to elderly neighbors in Caracas, Venezuela.
London, Jul 23 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Andy Rain).- The Cultural sector in the UK has criticised the slow government's response to Covid-19 impact in the culture industry. FOOTAGE OF THEATRES AND MUSIC VENUES IN LONDON.