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Tunisia, Mar 25 (EFE) .- (Camera: Natalia Román Morte) A year after confirming its first case of Covid-19, Tunisia is facing a severe economic, political and social crisis that has pushed its precarious health system to the limit and weakened the most disadvantaged classes, forced to choose "between dying of hunger or dying of coronavirus" in the second country in Africa in the percentage of deaths associated with the pandemic.FOOTAGE OF THE PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNISIA.SOUNDBITES IN FRENCH OF HECHMI LOUZIR GENERAL DIRECTOR OF THE PASTEUR INSTITUTE AND MEMBER OF THE TUNISIAN SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE.TRANSLATION:- "There has been a lack of respect for preventive measures and lack of means because our system, already in normal conditions, the resuscitation and oxygen beds, were at the limit, we can say".- "We've never heard of this. Pharmaceutical companies ask and demand, even before distributing the vaccines, that there be specific legislation in the countries that are going to receive them that says that in case of side effects the Government takes over. For this it has been necessary to pass laws, we have approved two".- "Many have been invited (to be vaccinated) and have not shown up, let's hope they show up. We know that first-line doctors play a very important role as intermediaries and if they are convinced of the benefits of the vaccine and are better informed of the risks and advantages, etc. the message is more easily transmitted to the population".
San Juan, Jan 2 (EFE).- The new governor of Puerto Rico, Pedro Pierluisi, said that the main challenges he faces in the four-year term that began Saturday are the Covid-19 pandemic, the economic crisis and the corruption that the island suffers. (Camera: THAIS LLORCA).SHOT LIST: PEDRO PIERLUISI SWEARS IN AS THE NEW GOVERNOR OF PUERTO RICO DURING AN INAUGURATION CEREMONY HELD AT THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE IN SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO.
Colombo, Nov 9 (EFE/EPA).- The Sri Lankan government announced Monday the easing of quarantine measures such as the curfew in Colombo and other parts of the country to restart economic activities amidst of the coronavirus pandemic. Sri Lanka has so far registered 13,929 cases of COVID-19 and 35 deaths due to the disease. (Camera: CHAMILA KARUNARATHNE)SHOT LIST: B-ROLL OF COLOMBO, SRI LANKA.
Despite US President Donald Trump's vocal push for a new COVID-19 stimulus package, it appears unlikely that one will come before Election Day. On Tuesday, Business Insider reports Trump signaled he wanted an ever-larger deal than the $2.2 trillion bill proposed by House Democrats. But according to Business Insider, Senate Republicans are skeptical that anything is going to happen anytime soon. It's getting to be toward the last minute. And the clock keeps ticking away. And I'm not optimistic about us doing anything. Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL)Chairman, Senate Appropriations Committee Furthermore, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has pushed for a far slimmer package than Democrats and the president. The GOP has prioritized Supreme Court Justice confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett over economic relief for Americans. But on Tuesday, Trump phoned in to 'Fox and Friends' to say he wants a stimulus program even larger than the Democrats' proposed $2.2 trillion package.
Llamchamacocha, Ecuador, Jun 29 (EFE), (Camera: Juan Francisco Chávez).- Wearing a Barcelona football shirt, a boy from the Sápara indigenous people glides down a river in the Ecuadorian Amazon in a canoe.He knows everything about the jungle, although he has no idea who Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi is.By the time they are 10 years old children in this indigenous community nimbly navigate their canoes through the rivers that flow into the Amazon basin.Waterways are the only connection between communities and the Sápara, the smallest of Ecuador's native populations, are fighting for survival with a new threat on the horizon: Covid-19.FOOTAGE OF SÁPARA INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN ECUADORIAN AMAZON.SOUNDBITES OF-Community leader Manari Ushigua:"We have told the State: let us live as we want to live. The Amazon is our heart and if the Amazon is our heart, we have to take care of it, because if we don't take care of it we will kill it."-Sani Montahuano:"We always say that we dream to live and we live to dream. The dream tells us what is going to happen."
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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