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COVID-19: Coronavirus affects daily life worldwide

By ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOS

March 12, 2020

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Student desks sit in the shade next to the parking lot of the closed Francisco Beckman high school, where a professor who died of the coronavirus worked, on the outskirts of Panama City today, the first day that schools closed nation-wide.
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Stacy Loggins, a janitorial supervisor for Metro, wipes down the interior of a bus with disinfectant at a Metro facility in St. Louis today. Metro cleaners have been asked to be sure to change towels frequently and wear two pairs of gloves as they perform cleaning tasks.
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Elizabeth Knote, of Cape Girardeau, Mo., wears a mask as she walks in a terminal at St. Louis Lambert International Airport near St. Louis after a flight from the Washington, D.C., area today. "I have some concerns. I take care of my mother who is 92 years old. I don't want to have to be quarantined," said Knote, who wears a mask to protect herself from exposure to the coronavirus.
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A man wears a mask as he walks down a street Quito, Ecuador, today. President Lenin Moreno decreed a state of sanitary emergency in the country, closing schools and sports arenas in an attempt to combat the new coronavirus.
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A woman on a public transportation bus a wears a surgical mask Quito, Ecuador, today.
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Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro arrives for a press conference at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela today. Maduro has suspended flights to Europe and Colombia for a month, citing concerns for the new coronavirus. Maduro added in a national broadcast that the illness has not yet been detected in Venezuela, despite it being confirmed in each bordering country, including Colombia, Brazil and Guyana.
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Brokers work in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil today.
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A Chinese woman manages a bar while Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez appears on TV, left, announcing new measures to fight against social and economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Pamplona, northern Spain, today.
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In this photo provided by Anne Marie Canlis, Clementine Canlis, of Seattle, watches an online lecture today after her private school closed for five weeks due to the coronavirus. The Canlis family's three children, ages 14, 11 and 9, are split between two private schools that are closed for six weeks and five weeks, respectively. Canlis' husband's family owns a well-known, award-winning restaurant called Canlis that will close next week and instead open three different options: a bagel shop, a drive-thru burger stand in the restaurant parking lot and a home delivery meal service for cooped up families.
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A healthcare provider puts a fit-tested mask over her face before her next patient at the coronavirus testing location at the Aspen Volunteer Fire Department's Aspen Village location today in Aspen, Colo.
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Eric Hsieh, left, holds hands with Iris Chen after they were married by deputy marriage commissioner Norm Dito, right, at City Hall in San Francisco, today.
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Crews cover the ice at American Airlines Center in Dallas, home of the Dallas Stars hockey team, after the NHL season was put on hold due to coronavirus today.
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Grounds crew members put the finishing touches on the field at FITTEAM Ballpark of The Palm Beaches following a spring training baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Washington Nationals today in West Palm Beach, Fla. Major League Baseball is delaying the start of its season by at least two weeks because of the coronavirus outbreak and has suspended the rest of its spring training game schedule.
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Washington Nationals center fielder Emilio Bonifacio (27) and second baseman Starlin Castro (14) tap arms as they get ready in the dugout prior to a spring training baseball game against the New York Yankees today in West Palm Beach, Fla. Major League Baseball is delaying the start of its season by at least two weeks because of the coronavirus outbreak and has suspended the rest of its spring training game schedule.
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A Servpro cleaning worker has her respirator mask sprayed down as she gets ready for a break from his work cleaning inside the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., near Seattle, today. The nursing home is at the center of the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Washington state.
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A person is loaded into an ambulance today at the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., near Seattle. The nursing home is at the center of the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Washington state.
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Servpro cleaning workers are sprayed as they exit the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., today.
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Amid fears of the coronavirus pandemic, a man and woman wear a face masks as they walk past the Thompson Center in Chicago today.
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Shoppers stand in line inside a large warehouse retailer today in Kennesaw, Ga. Amid all the fears, quarantines and stockpiling of food, it has been easy to ignore the fact that more than 60,000 people have recovered from the coronavirus spreading around the globe.
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Fort Worth ISD employee Patricia Stephens assists with a deep cleaning at the Leadership Academy at John T. White Elementary School in Fort Worth, Texas today.
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A nurse wearing a mask and gloves leaves Wellstar Kennestone as an ambulance arrives in Georgia today. Georgia authorities today confirmed the state's first coronavirus related death, a 67-year-old male hospitalized in Kennesaw.
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This aerial image today shows Rome's office district EUR, at what would have otherwise been rush hour, virtually empty after a government decree has limited circulation to proven need cases in a bid to halt the spread of the new coronavirus outbreak in Italy.
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Roxy Diner manager Sam Aboud, left, and employee Marie Tsotsonova study their cell phones in an empty restaurant across the street from the Majestic Theatre near Times Square in New York today after New York's Gov. Andrew Cuomo temporarily banned gatherings of more than 500 people amid a rise in cases of coronavirus. Aboud said it's a big loss financially for the area.
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Tourists Gabby Vela and her husband, of San Antonio, bring a pizza back to their hotel today in New York's Times Square area near Broadway today. The couple said they purchased the masks at Home Depot. The two were on spring break in the city, where New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has banned gatherings of more than 500 people amid concerns over the coronavirus.
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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks about the coronavirus today in Wilmington, Del.
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