Photos: Coronavirus pandemic, March 16
Photos from around the world of the coronavirus pandemic, March 16.
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A police officer checks the temperatures of passengers inside a jeepney at a checkpoint as part of a precautionary measure against the spread of the new coronavirus in Manila, Philippines Monday March 16, 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)
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A Moscow metro depot employee disinfects a metro train in Moscow, Russia, Monday, March 16, 2020. Starting from early March, Moscow authorities have been sending people who traveled to countries most affected by the coronavirus epidemic and returned with flu-like symptoms to a new hospital on the outskirts of the city. 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/Pavel Golovkin)
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Indians municipal workers fumigate an area as a precautionary measure against the spread of new coronavirus in Jammu, India, Monday, March 16, 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/Channi Anand)
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People keep their distance as they queue at a bakery in Versailles, west of Paris, Monday, March 16, 2020. France's government announced Saturday closing restaurants, bars and other establishments to limit the spread of the new coronavirus. 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/Michel Euler)
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An employee of the Klinikum Bremen-Ost walks in protective clothing through the tents of the corona ambulance where patients are waiting for the corona test in Bremen, Germany, Monday, March 16, 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. (Sina Schuldt/dpa via AP)
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Patients lie on beds at one of the emergency structures that were set up to ease procedures at the Brescia hospital, Italy, Monday, March 16, 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/Luca Bruno)
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Maja, second name not given, is sitting at Tegel Airport wearing a breathing mask and use her phone as she waits for a bus to leave for Poland in Berlin, Germany, Monday, March 16, 2020. She says that it is no longer possible to return to Poland by plane. 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. (Christoph Soeder/dpa via AP)
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A produce worker handles food with gloves while wearing a face mask, Monday, March 16, 2020, in New York. New York City entered a new phase in the coronavirus pandemic Monday with all the city's public schools closed for at least a month and bars and restaurants about to be off limits except for takeout service. According to the World Health Organization, most people recover in about two to six weeks, depending on the severity of the illness. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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A worker in protective suit walks on a railway track as he and his team disinfect passenger cars amid fears of the new coronavirus outbreak, at a train station in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Monday, March 16, 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/Binsar Bakkara)
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A man walks through an empty U.S. Capitol Rotunda on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March 16, 2020. Congress has shut the Capitol and all Senate and House office buildings to the public until April in reaction to the spread of the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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People play ball at the Mediterranean Sea beach front, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, March 16, 2020. Israel imposed sweeping travel and quarantine measures the government ordered restaurants, malls, cinemas, gyms and daycare centers shut to contain the spread of the coronavirus. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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In a bus of the line 416, a sign with the inscription "Entry at the front blocked" and a security tape separated the driver from the passengers in Brunswick, Germany, Monday, March 16, 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. (Stefan Jaitner/dpa via AP)
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A dog passes in front of a closed tavern in the old neighborhood of Plaka under the ancient Acropolis hill in Athens, Monday, March 16, 2020. Greek health authorities have warned people to stay home, and have shut down everything from restaurants, bars and cafes to public organized beaches, ski resorts, hair salons and movie theaters, in an effort to curb the spread of the virus. 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/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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A man boards a plane in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on Monday, March 16, 2020. The Vietnam government has made wearing face masks in public places compulsory from Mar. 16, 2020, in a response to the current development of COVID-19 pandemic. 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/Hau Dinh)
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Tourists walk along the nearly empty Royal Gallery of Saint Hubert commercial street in downtown Brussels, Monday, March 16, 2020. Belgium has closed schools, restaurants and bars as well as cancelled cultural and sporting events in an effort to stem the spread of the coronavirus. 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/Olivier Matthys)
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Judie Shape, left, who has tested positive for the coronavirus, waves to her daughter, Lori Spencer, right, March 11, 2020, as they visit on the phone and look at each other through a window at the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., near Seattle. In-person visits are not allowed at the nursing home. 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/Ted S. Warren)
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A taxi driver, wearing a protective mask as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, drives his American classic car with tourists in Havana, Cuba, March 13, 2020. (AP Photo / Ramon Espinosa)
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A delivery worker rides his electric bicycle past the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, March 16, 2020, in New York. New York leaders took a series of unprecedented steps Sunday to slow the spread of the coronavirus, including canceling schools and extinguishing most nightlife in New York City. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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A pharmacist gives Jennifer Haller, left, the first shot in the first-stage safety study clinical trial of a potential vaccine for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, Monday, March 16, 2020, at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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Richard Durant, 68, sits in his car after being tested by Dr. Oneka Marriott and Alexandru Manning for COVID-19, the disease that is caused by the new coronavirus, at a drive through station set up in the parking lot of FoundCare lab in West Palm Beach, Florida on Monday, March, 16, 2020. (Greg Lovett/The Palm Beach Post via AP)
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Rescue workers prepare the van for a man who called them for a respiratory distress, Monday March 16, 2020 in Strasbourg, eastern France. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)
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A sign informs customers that it is a open for take out only to help stop the transmission of COVID-19 coronavirus at a Starbucks, Monday, March 16, 2020, in Orange, Calif. According to the World Health Organization, most people recover in about two to six weeks, depending on the severity of the illness. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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Medicals workers speak to a driver at a drive-through coronavirus testing facility, Monday, March 16, 2020, in San Antonio. According to the World Health Organization, most people recover in about two to six weeks, depending on the severity of the illness. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Customers make a line with the shopping carts at a local retail store, Monday, March 16, 2020 in New York. New York state entered a new phase in the coronavirus pandemic Monday with all of New York City's public schools closed. New York joined with Connecticut and New Jersey to close bars, restaurants and movie theaters starting Monday night. According to the World Health Organization, most people recover in about two to six weeks, depending on the severity of the illness. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
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A man wearing a protective mask walks alone beside a carless street shortly past midnight at Quezon city in Manila, Philippines early Tuesday, March 17, 2020 as the government implements an "enhanced community quarantine" that requires millions of people to stay mostly at home in an attempt to contain the new coronavirus. 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)
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Natalie Marquez, manager of the Saucy Porka restaurant, right, sanitizes tables and stacks chairs for the final day of in-dining service due to a ban by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker as a preventive measure to COVID-19, the disease that is caused by the new coronavirus, Monday, March 16, 2020, in Chicago. As of Tuesday, bars and restaurants will become takeout-only throughout Illinois. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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Women in protective masks walking in downtown Warsaw are among the small numbers of people that can be seen in the streets as the government has asked all who can to remain home in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, in Warsaw, Poland, on Monday, March 16, 2020. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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A patient in a biocontainment unit is carried on a stretcher at the Columbus Covid 2 Hospital in Rome, Monday, March 16, 2020. At the Gemelli university polyclinic 21 new ICU units and 32 new beds for infective disease were opened on Monday morning, as part of the new Columbus Covid 2 Hospital, an area fully dedicated to the COVID-19 cases in order to support the regional health authorities in containing the pandemic. 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/Alessandra Tarantino)
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