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| - Go to to consult AFP Agenda Contact us on contact-agenda@afp.com HONG KONG (AFPTV) - We plan to file the following videos: TBA indicates that times are to be announced, but coverage is confirmed. TBC indicates that coverage is to be confirmed. For all editorial requests, email afptv@afp.com or contact the appropriate regional video desk. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2020 + HIGHLIGHTS LONDON/WASHINGTON: Britain, NY reports record deaths WUHAN (China): China lifts Wuhan travel ban HYDERABAD (India): India has seen corona helmets, horses and dances. Now an inventor in Hyderabad has constructed a corona car VIENNA (Austria): Vienna's Intercontinental Hotel is cooking free meals for the elderly in the neighbourhood with volunteers delivering the food by car, bike or horse-drawn carriage. + ASIA-PACIFIC WUHAN (China): People at the Wuhan Tianhe Airport as Chinese government lifts city exit restrictions. SOURCE: AFPTV - LIVE Around 0130 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW WUHAN (China): Cars with people leaving Wuhan at the Fuhe Toll Station as Chinese government lifts city exit restrictions. SOURCE: AFPTV EDIT 0230 GMT BEIJING (China): National Health Commission daily briefing. SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0900 GMT BEIJING (China): Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs daily briefing. SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0900 GMT KABUL (Afghanistan): Kabul streets ahead of enhanced coronavirus lockdown - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0200 GMT KABUL (Afghanistan): Afghan capital enters stricter lockdown to stem virus spread - SOURCE: AFPTV + AFGHAN INTERIOR MINISTRY (RESTRICTIONS APPLY) - EDIT 0900 GMT MUMBAI (India): Drive-through testing centre for COVID-19 opens in Delhi, in what the organisers say is an Indian first. SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0300 GMT HYDERABAD (India): In a drive to raise awareness on the fight against coronavirus, India has seen corona helmets, horses and dances. Now an inventor in Hyderabad has constructed a corona car. SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0500 GMT KUALA LUMPUR (Malaysia): Malaysian contraceptive giant Karex, which makes one in every five condoms globally, expects to produce 200 million fewer condoms than usual from mid-March to mid-April because of the coronavirus crisis. SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0400 GMT SEOUL (South Korea): For decades, Thae Yong Ho served North Korea, rising to become its deputy ambassador to London before defecting. Now he is standing for election in South Korea's multi-party democracy. SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0400 GMT + EUROPE BRUSSELS (Belgium): EU foreign policy Chief Josep Borrell gives a press conference after foreign and development ministers hold videoconference on coronavirus aid package for Africa. SOURCE: EBS - LIVE, TIMING TO BE CONFIRMED BY SOURCE - EDIT ON MERIT - LIVE TBA LONDON (United Kingdom): Scene outside St Thomas' Hospital where Boris Johnson is in intensive care. SOURCE: AFPTV - LIVES THROUGH THE DAY STARTING AT 0600 GMT - EDITS TO FOLLOW - LIVE TBA PARIS (France): Paris on 23rd day of coronavirus lockdown. View of Eiffel Tower - SOURCE: AFPTV - LIVE 0650 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW PARIS (France): Runners react to physical exercise ban between the hours 10 am and 7 pm SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1000 GMT PARIS (France): Paris on 23rd day of coronavirus lockdown. View of Saint-Germain-des-Pres - SOURCE: AFPTV - LIVE 1050 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW SCEAUX (France): People are told to cover their nose and face outside in a bid to reduce coronavirus spread - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1500 GMT PARIS (France): French Health ministry update on coronavirus - SUBJECT TO LAST-MINUTE CANCELLATION BY MINISTRY - SOURCE: FRENCH HEALTH MINISTRY - LIVE 1715 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW PARIS (France): Every night, a young Parisian singer plays guitar and sings from her balcony to pay tribute to medical teams fighting coronavirus - SOURCE : AFPTV - LIVE 1750 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW EDINBURGH (United Kingdom): Deserted streets of Scottish capital. SOURCE: AFPTV - LIVE 0900 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW MADRID (Spain): Spanish health ministry gives daily briefing on coronavirus. SOURCE: PALACIO DE LA MONCLOA - EDIT TO FOLLOW - LIVE 0930 GMT WATERLOO (Belgium): From whisky to hydroalcoholic gel -- a Belgian distillery now produces alcohol for pharmacies to help fight coronavirus outbreak. SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1000 GMT PARIS (France): Press conference following French weekly cabinet meeting with Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and Agriculture Minister Didier Guillaume- EXACT TIMING TO BE CONFIRMED - SOURCE: AGENCY POOL - LIVE 1100 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW RHYL (United Kingdom): NHS urges heart attack victims to still call 999 despite coronavirus - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1200 GMT MUNICH (Germany): Germany's top economic institution IFO publish biannual report with growth forecast - SOURCE: IFO -EDIT ON MERIT - EDIT 1200 GMT PARIS (France): French government answers lawmakers' questions as Parliament meets in "restricted format" due to coronavirus pandemic - SOURCE: SENATE - LIVE 1300 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW GENEVA (Switzerland): WTO presents its 2020-21 forecast and 2019 trade statistics. LIVE DEPENDING ON FEED QUALITY - LIVE 1300 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW GENEVA (Switzerland): WHO briefing on coronavirus. SOURCE: WHO - EDIT TO FOLLOW - LIVE 1400 GMT WARSAW (Poland): Because of the coronavirus pandemic, priests from the Temple of Divine Providence in the Polish capital are now having their flock confess in the parking lot instead of inside the church. - EDIT 1400 GMT ROME (Italy): Civil Protection Agency holds daily press conference on coronavirus. SOURCE: POOL - EDIT TO FOLLOW - LIVE 1600 GMT LONDON (United Kingdom): Downing Street daily coronavirus briefing. SOURCE: UK POOL - EDIT TO FOLLOW - LIVE 1600 GMT VIENNA (Austria): Vienna's Intercontinental Hotel is cooking free meals for the elderly in the neighbourhood with volunteers delivering the food by car, bike or horse-drawn carriage. - EDIT 1700 GMT TREVIGLIO (Italy): The mayor of the town that is the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in Italy imposes alternate days for shopping by sex -- men only, then women only -- to restrict numbers of residents outside. SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1700 GMT ROME (Italy): Nurses and doctors, facing huge stress dealing with the epidemic, are receiving help from psychiatrists at the Policlinico di Tor Vergata (Covid-4) SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1800 GMT ROME (Italy): How do doctors and nurses prepare themselves before entering the COVID-19 areas in Covid-3 Casal Palocco Hospital? - EDIT 1800 GMT + MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA CAIRO (Egypt): Pandemic plunges Egypt's poor into more precarious depths. - EDIT 0100 GMT + SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA PRETORIA (South Africa): Live streams of safaris in the South African bush offer getaway from lockdown boredom. - SOURCE: AFPTV/HANDOUT EDIT 1600 GMT + LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN RIO DE JANEIRO (Brazil): NGOs and volunteers distribute food to residents of the Cidade de Deus favela in Rio in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak - SOURCE: AFPTV EDIT 1800 GMT RIO DE JANEIRO (Brazil): Scientists in universities at the forefront of the fight against coronavirus - SOURCE: AFPTV EDIT 2000 GMT + SPORT NEW YORK (United States): A 350-bed emergency hospital starts receiving coronavirus patients at home of US Open tennis. Access being determined. SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1300 GMT + FEATURES TOKYO (Japan): Japan women fight for a place at the table as sushi chefs. SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0400 GMT THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2020 + ASIA-PACIFIC BEIJING (China): National Health Commission daily briefing. SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0900 GMT BEIJING (China): Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs daily briefing. SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0900 GMT + EUROPE BAIKONUR (Kazakhstan): Soyuz spacecraft takes off, with two cosmonauts and an astronaut on board - TBA BAIKONUR (Kazakhstan): Soyuz launch. SOURCE: NASA TV - LIVE 0800 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW BAIKONUR (Kazakhstan): Soyuz spacecraft docking with ISS. SOURCE: NASA TV - LIVE 1400 GMT BAIKONUR (Kazakhstan): Hatch opening. SOURCE: NASA TV - LIVE 1630 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW BERLIN (Germany): Press briefing by the Robert Koch Institute on the coronavirus. SOURCE: RKI POOL from AP - EDIT ON MERIT - LIVE 0800 GMT MADRID (Spain): Spanish health ministry gives daily briefing on coronavirus. SOURCE: PALACIO DE LA MONCLOA - EDIT TO FOLLOW - LIVE 0930 GMT SAINT PETERSBURG (Russia): Trial of historian accused of murdering, dismembering partner begins SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1500 GMT ROME (Italy): Civil Protection Agency holds daily press conference on coronavirus. SOURCE: POOL - EDIT TO FOLLOW - LIVE 1600 GMT VATICAN CITY (Holy See): Pope celebrates Mass of Lord's Supper at St Peter's Basilica. SOURCE: CTV - LIVE 1600 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW LONDON (United Kingdom): Downing Street daily coronavirus briefing. SOURCE: UK POOL - EDIT TO FOLLOW - LIVE 1600 GMT + LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN CARACAS (Venezuela): Venezuelans struggle to get gas amid COVID-19 outbreak - SOURCE AFPTV EDIT 2300 GMT * SPORT : AFPTV Sport subscribers only Editorial contacts: Email: afptv@afp.com Europe (excluding France) desk: +44 207 776 2768 France desk: +33 1 40 41 81 17 Asia desk: +852 2829 6279 Middle East & North Africa desk: +357 22 391 450 Sub-Saharan Africa desk (Mon-Fri): +33 1 40 41 46 81 North America desk: +1 202 414 0664 Latin America desk: +598 2 900 5095 ext. 257 AFPTV LIVE MCR: +33 1 40 41 79 63
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