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Few tourists can be seen at Beijing's Temple of Heaven for the annual Labour Day holiday as Covid restrictions are tightened. Restaurants across the Chinese capital are temporarily banning dining-in and residents need to clear Covid tests to visit public spaces. The five-day break is typically one of China's busiest travel periods, but the country's worst Covid resurgence since early in the pandemic is keeping people home. IMAGES
Colombo, May 24 (EFE/EPA).- Sri Lanka continued Monday under strict travel restrictions imposed by the government untill May 31 in order to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Sri Lanka has so far recorded a total of 164,201 COVID-19 cases with 1,210 deaths while a total of 1,454,485 people have received a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 333,423 have already received the second one. (Camera: CHAMILA KARUNARATHNE).SHOT LIST: HEALTH AUTHORITIES COLLECT SWAB SAMPLES FROM CITIZENS TO TEST FOR COVID-19 AND INOCULATE CITIZENS WITH COVID-19 VACCINE IN COLOMBO, SRI LANKA.
Xinjiang, May 7 (EFE/EPA).- A muezzin calls for prayer during Ramadan from Kashgar's Id Kah mosque, the largest in China, without using a loudspeaker, unlike other Muslim places, while about 50 devotees gather to pray, a small number for a city of more than 700,000 people.The mosque, built in the 15th century and surrounded by gardens, can accommodate up to 20,000 people and is a symbol of Kashgar, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and the legendary capital of southern Xinjiang, predominantly populated by the Uyghur ethnic minority.The mosque's imam, Juma Tahir, was stabbed to death by four Islamic extremists on July 30, 2014, outside the compound a few minutes after morning prayer, meeting the same fate as other imams, especially in southern Xinjiang. (Camera: JAVIER GARCÍA / WU HONG).B-ROLL OF THE PRAYER AT ID QAH MOSQUE, CHINA'S LARGEST MOSQUE IN KASHGAR CITY, B-ROLL OF XINJIANG ISLAMIC MOSQUE IN URUMQI, B-ROLL THE ARABIC CLASSES AND RECITATION OF KORAN IN THE ISLAMIC MOSQUE OF XINJIANG, B-ROLL OF PEOPLE EATING DURING THE MONTH OF RAMADAN IN A URUMQI MARKET, XINJIANG, CHINA.SOUND BITES: MAMAT JUMA, IMAM OF THE ID QAH MOSQU AND OMAR ABDEL ABDULLAH, STUDENT TO GRADUATE AS AN IMAM AT THE XINJIANG ISLAMIC INSTITUTE.TRANSLATIONS: 1. MAMAT JUMA, IMAM OF THE ID QAH MOSQUE. - Rreligious extremists used to come to every mosque in the past. My father (former Imam of the mosque) was assassinated here in 2014 for no reason - the extremists don't need any reason. They kill people under the pretext of Islam.2. OMAR ABDEL ABDULLAH, STUDENT TO GRADUATE AS AN IMAM AT THE XINJIANG ISLAMIC INSTITUTE.- Religious freedom is enshrined in the Chinese Constitution. It is totally up to us whethere we pray alone at home or in mosques. It is not required by the Government. But if we did it in a public place, we could be disturbing (social) order and annoy other people who are not religious.
The World Health Organization team, investigating the origins of the coronavirus, leaves the provincial disease control centre in Wuhan after a visit. A team member tells reporters: "excellent facilities, very informative meeting." IMAGES
Hong Kong, Jan 22 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Jerome Favre).- The Hong Kong government ordered a curfew in the central districts of Jordan and Yau Ma Tai to curb the spread of the coronavirus. The former British colony has registered more than 9,800 infections and 167 deaths from Covid-19 so far.FOOTAGE OF HONG KONG ON FRIDAY.
Wuhan (China), Jan 22 (EFE/EPA), (Camera: Roman Pilipey).- The Chinese government continued Friday to fight the biggest outbreaks of coronavirus in ten months, on the eve of the anniversary of the historic, and until then unprecedented, closure of a city of eleven million inhabitants: the city of Wuhan. FOOTAGE OF WUHAN, CHINA.