Las medidas adoptadas en prevención del covid-19 convirtieron Nanawa, una localidad fronteriza a unos 60 km al noroeste de Asunción, en un pueblo fantasma con sus comerciantes en la ruina (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

CLEAN: Exterior shots of Lyme Park National Trust property, with a worker laying sandbags around a pond to prevent future flooding on 5 March 2021 in Disley, Cheshire, United Kingdom

La escasez de oxígeno medicinal impide dar tratamiento a miles de enfermos de covid-19 en Perú, casi 200 personas han muerto cada día por la enfermedad en febrero, cuatro veces más que en diciembre, con la segunda ola de la pandemia...

Una jueza de garantías dictó la prisión preventiva del líder opositor de Paraguay Efraín Alegre, exrival del actual presidente Mario Abdo Benítez en las elecciones generales del 2018 (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Texans in the Houston area continue to repair water damage in their homes after pipes burst during a recent winter storm, forcing residents to remove pieces of wall and ceiling to prevent mold (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Feminist organisations protest against Turkey's withdrawal from the world's first binding treaty to prevent and combat violence against women (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Passengers arrive at Ezeiza International Airport as Argentina suspends flights from Brazil, Chile and Mexico in an effort to prevent new Covid-19 strains entering the Latin American country (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Surrounded by dozens of supporters, opposition leader Efraín Alegre and former rival of President Mario Abdo Benitez, waits outside the Tacumbu prison in Asuncion, after a judge ordered his preventive detention following accusations of...

A judge orders the preventive detention of Paraguay's opposition leader Efrain Alegre, former rival of current president Mario Abdo Benítez in the 2018 general elections (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Voters form long queues in Quito, with heath measures implemented to prevent the spread of Covid-19 slowing the entrance of people to polling stations in Ecuador's general elections (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Lebanon’s army is deployed on Tripoli’s main square to prevent access to demonstrators a day after the municipality headquarters were torched on the fourth night of angry protests over the government’s handling of the coronavirus...

After the ouster of Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir, Mukhtar Mohamed hoped he would soon go back to cultivating crops and raising animals in his village in the restive Darfur region, but persisting clashes prevented his return (Footage...

CGT General Secretary Philippe Martinez told reporters that "clear, precise, political acts should be taken" to prevent job cuts at Sanofi when what they do "is in the general interest". He was speaking during a rally in front of the...

A judge is evaluating whether to accept or reject the request for 18 months of preventive detention for former Peruvian president Martin Vizcarra, requested by the prosecution in the framework of an investigation for corruption while he...

Members of environmental organisations and university students protest in El Salvador's capital San Salvador demanding the Congress to pass a law to prevent water privatisation on World Water Day (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Cientos de fieles pisaron los adoquines de la ciudad vieja con ocasión del Viernes Santo, que conmemora la crucifixión de Cristo, tras un 202 en el que la pandemia de covid-19 impidió la celebración de los rituales (Footage by AFPTV via...

Sri Lankan Muslims decry government's move to prevent Muslim women from wearing a burqa or niqab as a new act of discrimination against their community, which accounts for 10 percent of the 21 million, Buddhist-majority population...

Un estudio sobre la vacunación contra el covid-19 en Chile mostró un 56,5% de efectividad para prevenir nuevos contagios dos semanas después de la administración de la segunda dosis y destacó que una sola dosis apenas protege un 3%...

Feminist organisations protest against Turkey's withdrawal from the world's first binding treaty to prevent and combat violence against women (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

People who fled the eastern city of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, for the western town of Sake are appealing to the Congolese government for help, a day after authorities ordered a "preventative" evacuation in parts of Goma...

Chile ya superó los seis millones de vacunados contra el covid-19 con al menos una dosis, y una gran parte de los mayores de 70 años ya están inmunizados, pero nada evitó que un alza sostenida de los contagios pusiera al límite los...

This is what Vizcarra is like," chants an enraged protester while waving a dead rat, as dozens gather outside the apartment of former Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra in Lima to demand his imprisonment, while a hearing is ongoing to...

As Italy remains under tight lockdown restrictions, the Vatican City's St. Peter's Square is closed on Palm Sunday to prevent people from gathering (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Former Peruvian president Martin Vizcarra pledges to turn his attention to the upcoming April 11 general election -- in which he is running as a legislator -- after a judge on Thursday rejected placing him in preventative detention...