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Added on the 07/06/2022 07:41:15 - Copyright : AFP EN
Images from an arrival hall at an international airport in Shanghai as China starts issuing a range of visas to foreigners again. The move marks the latest step towards reopening China to the outside world, as Beijing breaks with the strict zero-Covid strategy that defined its pandemic response until a few months ago. IMAGES
Beijing residents queue for Covid tests as China faces its worst outbreak since the peak of the first wave in early 2020. The capital city is sealing off whole neighbourhoods where handfuls of cases have been detected, while eastern Shanghai is recording dozens of daily deaths. IMAGES
Pasig City, Apr 17 (EFE/EPA).- The local government of Pasig City in Metro Manila area on Friday distributed food coupons to its residents as part of a relief program for students and citizens affected by the coronavirus lockdown.Each Pasig City student is alloted 400-pesos (around $8) worth of coupons that can be used by a legitimate relative to purchase food in designated markets within the city. (Camera: ROLEX DELA PENA). SHOT LIST: THE DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD COUPONS AS PART OF COVID-19 RELIEF EFFORTS AND RESIDENTS BUY FOOD AT A MOBILE MARKET USING FOOD COUPONS PROVIDED BY THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AT A MOBILE MARKET IN PASIG CITY, METRO MANILA, PHILIPPINES.
Samaritan's Purse, a US-based Christian global relief agency, is building a field hospital on Central Park's East Meadow lawn, with workers in face masks setting up white tarps and other equipment. The site is right across from one of the facilities in the Mount Sinai hospital group. IMAGES
Police erect fresh barricades near the highly guarded Liason Office -- the department that represents China's central government in Hong Kong. Elsewhere water cannon are deployed in anticipation of renewed clashes. IMAGES
Architectural firm People's Industrial Design Office has designed a community garden in Beijing which is transported around the big city by bicycle to give big city dwellers with no access to their own garden a taste of rural farming. The mobile farm, dubbed 'Bike Share Farm', sits on top of two bicycles and can be cycled from place to place. Pipes run across the metal base with holes for potted plants while solar panels provide energy for the watering system.