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Boston, Jan 19 (EFE / EPA) .- Boston City Hall was illuminated Tuesday with amber lights to honor the more than 400,000 people who have died from COVID-19 in the United States.(Camera: CJ GUNTHER) SHOT LIST: THE BOSTON CITY HALL ILLUMINATED IN HONOR OF THOSE KILLED BY COVID-19 IN THE US.
New York, Jan 19 (EFE / EPA) .-The United States' president-elect Joe Biden arrived in Washington, DC, on Wednesday to take the reins of a country overwhelmed by a convergence of crises derived from the Covid-19 pandemic and political divisions, which he aims to tackle beginning with a call for unity. Hours before becoming the US' 46th president, Biden left his home state of Delaware, where he launched his political career, and traveled to Washington to meet with what will be the country's first female vice president, Kamala Harris.The two participated together in their first event in Washington before the inauguration on Wednesday: a tribute to the victims of the epidemic in the US, where a few hours earlier the grim record of 400,000 deaths due to Covid-19 had been reached. (Camera: ALBA VIGARAY)SHOT LIST: A LIT UP EMPIRE STATE BUILDING TO PAY TRIBUTE TO THE VICTIMS OF COVID-19 THE US.
Brasilia, Oct 15 (EFE) .- An association of victims Friday placed 600 white flags in front of the Brazilian Congress, in Brasilia, in memory of the more than 600,000 Covid-19 related deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.The symbolic act was organized by the Association of Victims and Family Members of Covid Victims (Avico), created in April this year with the aim of putting pressure on the Government of President Jair Bolsonaro, who has consistently diminished the seriousness of the health crisis.(Camera: ALEX MIRKHAN)SHOT LIST: WHITE FLAGS PLACED IN FRONT OF THE BRAZILIAN CONGRESS IN BRASILIA, BRAZIL. SOUND BITES:Antonieta Alves, volunteer:"This act represents a large part of the pain of each of these families and our outrage at the government's contempt for these victims, because today 600,000 have been trivialized. 600,000 no longer means anything, you know? It's as if we hadn't started to die. The government does not take things into consideration and the people trivialize these 600 thousand. The families that lost their relatives and friends felt it. We feel that each one of these exceeds 600 thousand. "Carla Marcia Davi, volunteer:"We could have a health (policy) that would reduce deaths in the country, but unfortunately our government is negligent, it does not contribute with vaccines, to our public health. We are in a very difficult moment in our country, of mourning, abandonment and total poverty. "
Rio de Janeiro, Feb 12 (EFE).- Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome will remain quiet and deserted between Friday and Ash Wednesday due to the cancellation of the world's most famous carnival parade amid the Covid-19 pandemic but will light up at night in tribute to the victims of the coronavirus.The light show, simulating a carnival parade and highlighting the different colors of the samba schools in Rio de Janeiro, was ignited on Friday by the city's mayor, Eduardo Paes, to pay homage to the victims of the pandemic. (Camera: ANTONIO LACERDA).SHOT LIST: THE LIGHT SHOW TO PAY HOMAGE TO CORONAVIRUS VICTIMS AT SAMBADROME MARQUÊS DE SAPUCAÍ IN RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL.
Bogota, Feb 4 (EFE).- They were killed by police or for defending a cause they believed in, and now their faces, painted in vivid colors on the columns of a bridge in Bogota, occupy a place in Colombia's first open-air memory museum.Cars whiz on by on Boyaca Avenue as several street artists, perched on platforms, put the finishing touches on almost fifty portraits that pay tribute to social leaders that were killed in the country as well as victims of police violence. (Camera: JUAN DIEGO LOPEZ).SHOT LIST: COLOMBIA ARTISTS PAINT GRAFFITIS UNDER THE BRIDGE IN BOGOTA, COLOMBIA, TO HONOR VICTIMS OF ARMED CONFLICTS AND POLICE BRUTALITY IN THE COUNTRY.SOUND BITE: GUSTAVO TREJOS, A DIRECTOR OF TRÍPIDO FOUNDATION (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATION: We'd like to remind Colombia that the capital punishment in this country does not exist and that every lives matter, whether you're a police officer, a soldier, a former guerilla or a civilian. No one has the right to die and we need to protect every lives.