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Added on the 05/03/2020 16:01:27 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Residents of Boston, Massachusetts, line up at a Covid-19 testing site as the United States experiences a surge in coronavirus cases. 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
A long line of people snakes across a park in Washington, DC, at a makeshift Covid-19 test site near the White House, as people prepare for holiday festivities, just a few days away. IMAGES
New Yorkers line up outside a truck offering Covid-19 testing in Corona, a neighborhood in Queens where the coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc last year. One year ago, on March 1, 2020, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo confirmed the state's first known coronavirus case. The next morning, he and Mayor Bill de Blasio held a joint briefing where they to talked about the importance of testing. IMAGES
The Biden administration will distribute more than 25 million masks across the United States to curb the spread of Covid-19, White House Covid-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients says during a news briefing. SOUNDBITE
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