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São Paulo, Mar 6 (EFE), (Camera: Wallace Carvalho).- All non-essential shops and businesses in Sao Paulo, Brazil's richest and most populous state, closed down on Saturday for the next few weeks due to a serious spike in cases and deaths from Covid-19, which have pushed the healthcare system to the verge of collapsing.With 46 million inhabitants, the country's financial engine was the first state to impose more severe measures of lockdown and social isolation a year ago and, with Governor Joao Doria at its head, led the implementation of the first vaccine. But despite those efforts, the state remains the most affected in absolute terms.FOOTAGE OF CLOSED BUSINESSES IN SAO PAULO
The city of Sao Paulo in Brazil has issued a new lockdown due to the worsening Covid-19 health situation. These restrictions include the closure of all non-essential shops. Nearly 260,000 people have died of Covid in Brazil, the second-highest pandemic death toll in the world after the United States. IMAGES
Moscow (Russia), Jan 27 (EFE/EPA), (Camera- Image: Yuri Kochetkov).- Authorities in Moscow on Wednesday lifted health restrictions imposed to curb the coronavirus pandemic, after noting a downward trend in the number of infections with less than 2,000 a day. In Moscow, 1,837 new cases of coronavirus were detected in the last 24 hours, the lowest number since September 26.FOOTAGE OF THE CITY OF MOSCOW.
Nurse Monica Calazansis is the first person in Brazil to receive the CoronaVac Sinovac Biotech's vaccine against Covid-19 at the Clinicas hospital in Sao Paulo, immediately after the country's health regulatory agency (Anvisa) authorized the emergency use of two vaccines. IMAGES
Sao Paulo, Apr 26 (EFE).- A group of demonstrators on Sunday took to the streets of Sao Paulo to protest against the social isolation measures imposed by Governor Joao Doria to curb the soread of coronavirus in Brazil, where 61,888 cases and 4,205 deaths have been confirmed.According to local media reports, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, supported the protest and spoke to a group of supporters who advocated the closure of Congress and a military intervention amid the pandemic in Brazil. (Camera: WALLACE CARVALHO).FOOTAGE SHOWS A PROTEST AGAINST SOCIAL ISOLATION AMID COVID-19 PANDEMIC.