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Added on the 12/11/2020 19:32:21 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Residents of the US capital wait in line at a Covid-19 testing site in downtown Washington as cases continue to rise across the country. IMAGES
Residents line up in their cars to get tested for COVID-19 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles as the epidemic is once more blowing up at an exponential rate in the United States. IMAGES
Dozens of cars line up at a COVID-19 drive-through test site in Miami as coronavirus cases surge in the southern US state of Florida. IMAGES
Workers in PPE test residents, including elderly and children, in a locked-down Shanghai residential district. Shanghai, a city of 25 million and China's economic engine room, has become the heart of the country's biggest outbreak since the peak of the first virus wave in Wuhan over two years ago, rattling the country's adherence to a strict zero-Covid policy. Residents locked down since early April have complained of food shortages and over-zealous officials forcing them into state quarantine, as authorities rush to construct tens of thousands of beds to house Covid-19 patients with daily infections topping 20,000. IMAGES
Covid antigen self-test kits are distributed in Queens, New York, where people wait in long lines to get a free test before the Christmas holidays. The US is battling huge infection surges driven by variant Omicron's rapid spread. IMAGES
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.