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Athens (Greece), Sep 13 (EFE) .- (Camera: Yannis Chryssoverghis) The school year began this Monday in Greece with classrooms one hundred percent occupied and amid concerns that this could cause an upturn in infections daily covid-19, which now exceed 2,000 a day.FOOTAGE OF STUDENTS COMING BACK TO THEIR CLASSROOMS IN ATHENS, GREECE
New Delhi, Jul 2 (EFE/EPA).- Many Indian schools remained closed Friday and opted for online learning for the new academic year amid fears of possible third wave of Covid-19.India crossed a grim milestone of over 400,000 Covid-19 deaths after fewer than 900 new fatalities were reported from across the country on Friday.It is the lowest number of daily deaths in recent weeks in the country suffered a devastating health crisis due to the second wave of the coronavirus amid deadly shortages of medicines, hospital beds, and life-saving medical oxygen. (Camera: HARISH TYAGI).SHOT LIST: INDIAN SCHOOL TEACHERS AT GANDHI SMARAK SCHOOL IN RAGHUNATHPUR RECORD LESSONS VIA MOBILE PHONE FOR STUDENTS AT THE SCHOOL ON OUTSKIRTS OF NEW DELHI, INDIA.
Dakar (Senegal), Oct 2 (EFE), (Camera: María Rodríguez).- Fifteen cents. That amount of money is what Mamadou Diakhaté asked for to each of his then 15,000 Twitter followers - he now has about 21,000 - to fix a school in Dakar closed due to the pandemic.His idea has revolutionized Senegal and now he has to fix dozens of schools. Known for his activism on social media as Junior Diakhaté Niintche, the 34-year-old teacher decided a few months ago to start cleaning Dakar public schools so they could reopen at the start of the school year in November.FOOTAGE OF A SCHOOL IN DAKAR, CLOSED DUE TO COVID-19.SOUNDBITES OF JUNIOR DIAKHATÉ NIINTCHE, TEACHER:"I said to the boys: we have made an assessment, now we are going to look for solutions. It is not enough to be on social media and say: it is not right, it is not right, the State does nothing. We have to react.""People give (money), they are enthusiastic. 100 CFA francs is little money, but they can work miracles.""Every afternoon we do the accounts, the invoices are published on social media. Everyone is looking. We do not deny access to anyone because everyone has given (money). Everyone is looking at what we do.""It is extraordinary. That is the great victory for me, because if other people take charge, we will automatically change things. We no longer have to wait for the State. We don't have to wait any longer for outside partners to come in and put the money into what our children will use to become tomorrow's leaders.""For me, education is the only weapon that can change society. It was Nelson Mandela who said that. When schools are closed, prisons are open. Our countries, very poor, today have only one way to develop: education. If it works, everything works; if it doesn't work, nothing will work."
French Prime Minister Jean Castex arrives in Lille as the northern city experiences a resurgence of the Covid pandemic, and where masks are now mandatory in certain public sites. IMAGES
Vote counting starts in Mali barely a day after the country recorded its first coronavirus death and with the leading opposition figure kidnapped and believed to be in the hands of jihadists. IMAGES
French students return to school after the summer break, with increased security measures across the country following a series of attacks. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
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