epaselect ISRAEL PANDEMIC CORONAVIRUS COVID19
epaselect epa09033861 People wearing face masks during a music concert after showing their coronavirus vaccination certificate or 'green badge' in Tel Aviv, 24 February 2021. Israel reopened cultural hubs for people with a vaccination certificate or 'green badge', after months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. Israel started lifting some of its coronavirus restrictions and allowed the use of 'Green Badge' app for vaccination certificate for people who have received two doses of the coronavirus vaccine. EPA/ABIR SULTAN
epaselect CZECH REPUBLIC PANDEMIC CORONAVIRUS COVID19
epaselect epa09033842 Paramedics transfer COVID-19 patient from the fully occupied Sokolov Hospital, in Sokolov, Czech Republic, 24 February 2021. According to the Czech Ministry of Health, the capacity of intensive care beds in hospitals is close to absolute exhaustion, with about 15 percent available. The government will ask the Chamber of Deputies to extend the state of emergency, and the government plans to tighten measures to spread the epidemic of COVID-19 caused by the SARS-CoV-2. EPA/MARTIN DIVISEK
epaselect GERMANY CRIME DRUGS
epaselect epa09033809 Customs officers stand next to paint canisters and packages of cocaine displayed at the customs investigation office of Hamburg, northern Germany, 24 February 2021. Customs authorities announced that they have seized more than 16 tonnes of cocaine hidden in three containers at the port of Hamburg on 12 February 2021. According to a press release from the Hamburg customs investigations department, this is the biggest-ever cocaine haul in Europe. EPA/FOCKE STRANGMANN
epaselect PARAGUAY WOMAN DAY
epaselect epa09033746 Women collect mandioka in front of the Pantheon of Heroes, in Asuncion, Paraguay, 24 February 2021. The Women's Front of the Paraguay Pyahura Party commemorates the Paraguayan Women's Day by donating its production of vegetables, fruits and non-perishable foods to the poor families of Asuncion. The distribution of production is a reminder of the leading role that women played throughout our history in the defense of sovereignty, as for example in the War of 70 when they dug trenches, were nurses and transporters of weapons, sang hymns allusive to the war through the streets, calling to defend the homeland. EPA/Nathalia Aguilar
epaselect MIDEAST ISRAEL PANDEMIC COVID19 CORONAVIRUS
epaselect epa09033720 An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man prays in a capsule at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, 24 February 2021. Israel partially lifted its third national lockdown and allows people free movement, after vaccinating over four and a half million of its around nine million citizens with the first dose of the anti-Covid-19 vaccine. Three million people have been given the second dose. EPA/ATEF SAFADI
epaselect AFGHANISTAN COVID19 VACCINE
epaselect epa09033312 A health worker (C) receives a shot of COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Herat, Afghanistan, 24 February 2021. Afghanistan started the first phase of COVID-19 vaccination on 23 February aimed at frontline health workers and members of the security forces. EPA/JALIL REZAYEE
USA MCCARTHY COVID BILL
epa09033983 Republican Representative from California Devin Nunes leaves a Republican conference in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA, 24 February 2021. EPA/JIM LO SCALZO
CUBA DAILY LIFE
epa09033981 People line up to buy food next to murals of Hugo Chavez and Che Guevara, in Havana, Cuba, 24 February 2021. Cuba reported 699 cases of covid-19 this Wednesday for a total of more than 46,000, while more than 4,600 people remain in hospitals, a figure lower than those reported in recent days. EPA/Ernesto Mastrascusa
BOLIVIA ELECTION
epa09033972 Officials of the Bolivian Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) carry out a mock voting for the subnational elections of 07 March, in La Paz, Bolivia, 24 February 2021. Bolivia is getting ready with drills carried out by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal to show the voting process, the biosafety measures and the delivery of electoral ballots 11 days before the subnational elections in the country. EPA/Martin Alipaz
USA SENATE CONFIRMATION HEARING HAALAND
epa09033969 Senator Steve Daines, a Republican from Montana, speaks during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee confirmation hearing for Representative Deb Haaland, a Democrat from New Mexico and secretary of the interior nominee for U.S. President Joe Biden, in Washington, DC, USA, 24 February 2021. EPA/Sarah Silbiger / POOL
