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Added on the 08/01/2023 03:07:41 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Ambulances carrying masked patients arrive outside the emergency department of Zhongshan Hospital in Shanghai. An explosion of Covid-19 cases in China has overwhelmed the healthcare system, and crematoriums across the country are struggling to deal with the influx of bodies. IMAGES
One hundred forty six South Africans return to South Africa and are taken to a quarantine facility by bus after they were working and studying in Wuhan city, which was placed under lockdown for around two months after the novel virus was first detected in December. The returnees will only be released after they get a clean bill of health at the end of the mandatory quarantine. Government officials have assured that none of the group are infected by the virus and that the quarantine measures are only a precaution. IMAGES
French police stand guard outside the Ensosp (National Advanced School for Fire Fighting Officers) in Aix-en-Provence, where a number of people will be housed for quarantine after being repatriated from Wuhan, the centre of the coronavirus epidemic, IMAGES
Australian and New Zealand military cargo planes are evacuating hundreds of tourists from Magenta airfield in Noumea, who have been trapped since the start of the crisis that has rocked New Caledonia, against a backdrop of protests over electoral reform. IMAGES
Passangers arrive at Singapore Changi Airport after their Singapore Airlines flight hit severe turbulence that triggered an emergency landing in Bangkok, Thailand. A 73-year-old British man died and more than 70 people were injured Tuesday in what passengers described as a terrifying scene. An initial data analysis by the aviation tracking service Flightradar24 suggested the London-Singapore flight experienced more than one minute of extreme turbulence at around 11,300 metres (37,000 feet) over Myanmar, during which it violently rose and plunged several times. IMAGES
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