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Businesses worldwide reopen amid COVID-19 pandemic

By Photos by Associated Press

May 18, 2021

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Ellen Booth, 57, studies at her kitchen table to become a certified medical coder, in Coventry, R.I., on Monday. When the restaurant she worked for closed last year, Booth said it gave her "the kick I needed." She started a year-long class to learn to be a medical coder. When her unemployment benefits ran out two months ago, she started drawing on her retirement funds. Booth hopes to pass her upcoming exam and soon hit the job market.
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People walks near The Chicago Theatre today in Chicago's famed Loop. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eased its guidelines on the wearing of masks outdoors, saying fully vaccinated Americans don't need to cover their faces anymore unless they are in a big crowd of strangers.
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A worker in a face mask clears tables inside a covered patio amid the COVID-19 pandemic today in Burbank, Calif.
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Tables are cleaned in an outdoor eating area amid the COVID-19 pandemic today in Burbank, Calif.
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A waiter wears a face mask while tending to customers amid the COVID-19 pandemic today in Burbank, Calif.
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A restaurant worker cleans the awning of a restaurant near Gare de Lyon Station, in Paris, today. The outdoor terraces of France's cafes and restaurants will be allowed to reopen on May 19 along with museums, cinemas, theaters and concert halls under certain conditions.
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Cathy Fuller, a nurse at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, talks into a handheld radio today at a mass COVID-19 immunization site in Hoover, Ala., where declining demand prompted a shutdown. While initially capable of vaccinating as many as 2,400 people daily, site workers said far fewer people have been showing up for shots even though only about 25% of Alabama's population is fully vaccinated.
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Workers wash a closed restaurant preparing to reopen it in Albufeira, in Portugal's southern Algarve region, today. British vacationers began arriving in large numbers in southern Portugal on Monday, after governments in the two countries eased their COVID-19 pandemic travel restrictions, brightening the outlook for Portugal's crucial tourism sector, especially the sun and surf resorts along the Algarve coast which rely heavily on the U.K. market and where hotels shut down for most of the past year.
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People walk past the Sunset's Cafe terrace in Rennes, western France, today. The outdoor terraces of France's cafes and restaurants will be allowed to reopen on May 19 along with museums, cinemas, theaters and concert halls under certain restrictions.
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Museum workers remove protection on a painting on the eve of the Modern Art museum reopening in Strasbourg, eastern France, today. The outdoor terraces of France's cafes and restaurants will be allowed to reopen on May 19 along with museums, cinemas, theaters and concert halls under certain conditions.
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