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Parisians clap from their balconies on Day 20 of a national lockdown to cheer on health-care workers battling the coronavirus pandemic in France. IMAGES
Manila, Jun 3 (EFE/EPA).- “Here come the astronauts! COVID, COVID!,” joke the locals as a group of volunteer health workers, dressed from head to toe in protective medical gear, walk down the winding alleys and passages of a densely populated working class Manila neighborhood to check on positive and suspected cases of Covid-19.Mercelina Villacampa, Vannessa Morales, Fe Bacunawa and Richell Arsenio have been conducting home visits twice a day since mid-March, when the capital city and the rest of the northern Philippine island of Luzon – the archipelago’s largest and most populous – was put under lockdown in a bid to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.“At first, I was really scared, but then I got used to it,” says Vannessa, who has five children at home. (Camera: MARK CRISTINO). FOOTAGE SHOWS VOLUNTEER HEALTH WORKERS CHECK ON POSITIVE AND SUSPECTED CASES OF COVID-19 IN VILLAGE 775, ZONE 84 OF MANILA, THE PHILIPPINES
Despite being confined, many Parisians, armed with masks and sunglasses, shop in the rue Mouffetard in Paris, trying to keep a safe distance from each other on what is the 34th day of the French lockdown. IMAGES
The residents of the 19th arrondissement of Paris applaud for healthcare staff from their windows, just before Emmanuel Macron addresses the nation on France's 28th day of confinement, decreed by the government to fight against the spread of coronavirus. IMAGES
Residents of Paris's 7th arrondissement applaud healthcare workers from their windows, as France undergoes its 26th day of lockdown. IMAGES
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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