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Added on the 17/02/2021 04:59:56 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
A Viennese Christmas market is quiet and closed on Monday morning as Austria returns to lockdown. The country is shutting shops, restaurants and festive markets in the most dramatic Covid-19 restriction seen in Western Europe for months. IMAGES
People start getting injections at the All India Institute of Medical Science in Delhi as the nation begins one of the world's biggest coronavirus vaccination programmes, hoping to end a pandemic that has killed 150,000 people in the country and torpedoed the economy. On Saturday, around 300,000 people will be vaccinated at 3,000 centres in the country. About 150,000 staff in 700 districts have been trained to administer jabs and keep records. IMAGES
Commuters wear masks in a subway station in New York as the US COVID-19 pandemic epicenter enters phase one of the state's plan to reopen economic activities. IMAGES
Rome restaurants are open for business as the country enters 'Phase Two' of its virus confinement measures, with establishments offering take-away options only. IMAGES
Pope Francis leaves Indonesia after delivering a message of religious unity in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, heading to Papua New Guinea for the second leg of an arduous 12-day tour of the Asia-Pacific. IMAGES