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APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Philippines
A motorcycle passes by almost empty street as the enhanced community quarantine is enforced to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in downtown Manila, Philippines on Thursday, March 19, 2020. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some, it can cause more severe illness, especially in older adults and people with existing health problems. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak France
Children play in a street of Saint Jean de Luz, southwestern France, Thursday, March 19, 2020. French President Emmanuel Macron said that for 15 days starting at noon on Tuesday, people will be allowed to leave the place they live only for necessary activities such as shopping for food, going to work or taking a walk. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)
APTOPIX Financial Markets Wall Street
A surgical mask is placed on The "Fearless Girl" statue outside the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, March 19, 2020, in New York. Stocks are swinging between gains and losses in early trading on Wall Street Thursday, but the moves are more subdued than the wild jabs that have dominated recent weeks. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Argentina
A newspaper vendor shows the front pages of several newspapers carrying the same Spanish headline: "Between all of us, we put the breaks on the virus," referring to the new coronavirus in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, March 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Spain
A woman wearing protection mask looks on through the window, at San Martin nursing home, where several elderly people were infected by coronavirus in Vitoria, northern Spain, Thursday, March 19, 2020. Spain will mobilize 200 billion euros or the equivalent to one fifth of the country's annual output in loans, credit guarantees and subsidies for workers and vulnerable citizens, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced Tuesday. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some, it can cause more severe illness, especially in older adults and people with existing health problems. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
APTOPIX Mexico President Lopez Obrador
Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his daily news conference at the presidential palace in Mexico City, early Thursday, March 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Germany Daily Life
A couple pass a pedestrian tunnel in Munich, Germany, Thursday, March 19, 2020. Measures to curb the coronavirus massively affect public life in Germany (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Italy
Medical personnel at work in the intensive care unit of the hospital of Brescia, Italy, Thursday, March 19, 2020. Italy has become the country with the most coronavirus-related deaths, surpassing China by registering 3,405 dead. Italy reached the gruesome milestone on the same day the epicenter of the pandemic, Wuhan, China, recorded no new infections. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Belgium
A woman rides a bicycle in downtown Ghent, Belgium, Thursday, March 19, 2020. Belgium has ordered further lockdown measures following in the steps of European neighbours Italy, Spain and France. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Texas
A person is taken on a stretcher into the United Memorial Medical Center after going through testing for COVID-19 Thursday, March 19, 2020, in Houston. People were lined up in their cars in a line that stretched over two miles to be tested in the drive-thru testing for coronavirus. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Mexico
Women wear face masks as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus as they ride the elevator to their offices in Mexico City, Thursday, March 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Spain
Veterinary Eva Martinez feeds lemurs during a daily check up at the Madrid Zoo, Spain, Thursday, March 19, 2020. It's feeding time for the animals and it business as usual at the Madrid Zoo and aquarium despite the state of emergency in place across Spain. Just like on the almost empty streets of the Madrid capital, the zoo workers are keeping a minimum social distancing between themselves and when possible with the animals. The vast majority of people recover from the new coronavirus. According to the World Health Organization, most people recover in about two to six weeks, depending on the severity of the disease. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Algeria
Passengers of cruise ship arrive in the port of Algiers, before being quarantined as a precaution against coronavirus, Thursday, March 19, 2020. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/Toufik Doudou)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Florida
Empty chairs sit on the beach, Thursday, March 19, 2020, in Miami Beach, Fla. Florida's largest county inched closer to economic shutdown as Miami-Dade County's mayor ordered all beaches, parks and “non-essential” commercial and retail businesses closed because of the coronavirus outbreak. Mayor Carlos Gimenez's order Thursday allows several businesses to remain open, including health care providers, grocery stores, gas stations, restaurants and banks. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak New York
A worker wears a protective face mask and gloves while cleaning the sidewalk in the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York, Thursday, March 19, 2020. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo tightened work-from-home rules Thursday as confirmed cases of COVID-19 continued to climb in New York, an expected jump as testing becomes more widespread. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Venezuela
A man removes his cap as a soldier takes his temperature outside a food market as a preventative measure against the spread of the coronavirus in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, March 19, 2020. To enter the market, people are required to get their temperature taken and disinfect their hands. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Texas
A line of cars stretches over two miles as people wait to enter a drive-thru testing site for COVID-19 at United Memorial Medical Center Thursday, March 19, 2020, in Houston. For most people, the coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Washington
In this aerial drone photo, workers erect a temporary field hospital for use by people unable to isolate and recover from COVID-19 in their own homes on a soccer field Thursday, March 19, 2020, in the Seattle suburb of Shoreline, Wash. The field hospital will provide up to 200 beds, according to a city website, and will house "people exposed to, at risk of exposure, or becoming ill with the novel coronavirus." (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak New York Testing
A worker wearing protective gear, left, transfers a container to another worker outside one of the tents at a state-managed coronavirus drive-through testing site that opened, Thursday, March 19, 2020, on the Staten Island borough of New York. It is the first such facility in New York City. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Mexico Equinox Closure
The Martinez family from Puebla celebrates the Spring equinox a little early, to avoid crowds and closures, atop the Pyramid of the Sun, in Teotihuacan, Mexico, Thursday, March 19, 2020. To slow the spread of the new coronavirus, authorities announced Wednesday that they would close the pyramid complex on weekends, beginning Saturday, March 21, when thousands of visitors typically climb the Pyramid of the Sun to celebrate the Spring equinox.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Ecuador
Women wear face masks and gloves as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, March 19, 2020. The government has declared a "health emergency," restricting movement to only those who provide basic services, enacting a curfew, and closing schools. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Spain
Spanish UME (Emergency Army Unit) soldiers disinfect the terminal one to prevent the spread of COVID-19 at the airport of Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, March 19, 2020. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some, it can cause more severe illness, especially in older adults and people with existing health problems. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Mexico Equinox Closure
South Korean tourists Myung Hee Lee, left, and Byung Ho Im, form a heart with their hands as they pose for pictures atop the Pyramid of the Moon, in Teotihuacan, Mexico, Thursday, March 19, 2020. The pair took advantage of getting stuck in Mexico City for a day to visit the pyramids, after their flight home from a vacation in Cancun and Cuba was cancelled. To slow the spread of the new coronavirus, authorities announced Wednesday that they would close the pyramid complex on weekends, beginning Saturday, March 21, when thousands of visitors typically climb the Pyramid of the Sun to celebrate the Spring equinox.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Belgium
A man wearing a face masks travels in a virtually empty metro in Brussels, Thursday, March 19, 2020. Belgium has ordered further lockdown measures following in the steps of European neighbours Italy, Spain and France. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak New York
The Manhattan bridge is seen in the background of a flashing sign urging commuters to avoid gatherings, reduce crowding and to wash hands in the Brooklyn borough of New York, on Thursday, March 19, 2020. In a matter of days, millions of Americans have seen their lives upended by measures to curb the spread of the new coronavirus. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Canada
A medical professional collects a sample from a young boy at a drive-through coronavirus screening clinic at Sainte Justine Children Hospital in Montreal, Thursday, March 19, 2020. (Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press via AP)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Peru
The Via Expresa highway, closed by the government to discourage citizens from circulating, is free of traffic in Lima, Peru, Thursday, March 19, 2020, the fourth day of a state of emergency decreed by the government to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Missouri Daily Life
Aliyah Mosby is silhouetted against the sunset as she walks at the Liberty Memorial Thursday, March 19, 2020, in Kansas City, Mo. Mosby was taking advantage of warm weather on the first day of spring to get some fresh air as most of the community isolates to limit the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
APTOPIX India Hangings
Asha Devi, mother of the victim of the fatal 2012 gang rape on a moving bus, facing camera, is embraced by an unidentified woman after the rapists of her daughter were hanged, in New Delhi, India, Friday, March 20, 2020. Four men were sentenced to capital punishment for the 2012 gang-rape of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student on a moving bus in New Delhi have been executed. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
APTOPIX Missouri Daily Life
Storm clouds drop rain showers as they pass over downtown Kansas City, Mo. Thursday, March 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
APTOPIX Olympics Tokyo 2020 Torch Arrival
Blue Impulse of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force fly over during Olympic Flame Arrival Ceremony at Japan Air Self-Defense Force Matsushima Base in Higashimatsushima in Miyagi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, Friday, March 20, 2020. The Olympic flame from Greece arrived in Japan even as the opening of the the Tokyo Games in four months is in doubt with more voices suggesting the games should to be postponed or canceled because of the worldwide virus pandemic. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
APTOPIX Olympics Tokyo 2020 Torch Arrival
Three-time Olympic gold medalists Tadahiro Nomura, right, and Saori Yoshida light the torch as Tokyo 2020 Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori, left, watches during Olympic Flame Arrival Ceremony at Japan Air Self-Defense Force Matsushima Base in Higashimatsushima in Miyagi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, Friday, March 20, 2020. The Olympic flame from Greece arrived in Japan even as the opening of the the Tokyo Games in four months is in doubt with more voices suggesting the games should to be postponed or canceled because of the worldwide virus pandemic. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
APTOPIX India Kashmir Virus Outbreak
A Kashmiri Muslim devotee covers his face as municipal workers spray disinfectants as a precautionary measure against COVID-19 inside the shrine of Shah-e-Hamadan in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, March 20, 2020. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Czech Republic
A woman walks across the near empty Charles Bridge in Prague, Czech Republic, Friday, March 20, 2020. The Czech Republic's government has approved further dramatic measures to try and stem the spread of the novel coronavirus called COVID-19. The Prague castle is in the background. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Indonesia
Muslim men perform Friday prayer at the distance of about one meter (3 ft) to each other as a social distancing effort to prevent the spread of new coronavirus outbreak at Al Akbar mosque in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, Friday, March 20, 2020. The vast majority of people recover from the new coronavirus. According to the World Health Organization, most people recover in about two to six weeks, depending on the severity of the illness. (AP Photo/Trisnadi)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Germany
A woman buys fruits at a supermarket in Bergisch Gladbach that is open in the morning only for elderly people from 65 years to minimize their risk of infection due to the coronavirus outbreak in Germany, Friday, March 20, 2020. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
APTOPIX Nepal Virus Outbreak
A Nepalese Muslim man wearing face mask as a precaution against COVID-19 offers Friday prayers at Jame mosque in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, March 20, 2020. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Bulgaria Parilament
Vesselin Mareshki, right, leader of Bulgarian Political party Volya, and an MP from from his party wear protective suits during Parliamentary session in the Bulgarian National Assembly in Sofia, Bulgaria, on Friday March 20, 2020. For some people the COVID-19 coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, but for some it can cause very severe illness.(AP Photo/Vesselin Borishev)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Italy
People stand apart as they line up to enter a supermarket in Rome, Friday, March 20, 2020. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
