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A security guard stands on the Shibuya Sky observation deck in Tokyo on Tuesday, March 3.
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US President Donald Trump, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence, left, and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, speaks during a meeting with pharmaceutical executives and the White House coronavirus task force on Monday, March 2. Throughout the meeting, Trump was hyperfocused on pressing industry leaders in the room for a timeline for a coronavirus vaccine and treatment. But experts at the table – from the administration and the pharmaceutical industry – repeatedly emphasized that a vaccine can’t be rushed to market before it’s been declared safe for the public.
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Healthcare workers transfer a patient at the Life Care Center in Kirklland, Washington, on Sunday, March 1 . The long-term care facility is linked to confirmed coronavirus cases.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits a London laboratory of the Public Health England National Infection Service.
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Staff members disinfect the premises of a makeshift hospital in Wuhan, China, on March 1, after all patients were discharged.
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Medical staff stand outside a hospital in Daegu, South Korea, on March 1.
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Tomoyuki Sugano, a professional baseball player on the Yomiuri Giants, throws a pitch in an empty Tokyo Dome during a preseason game on Saturday, February 29. Fans have been barred from preseason games to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
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Commuters wearing masks make their way to work during morning rush hour at the Shinagawa train station in Tokyo on February .
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Medical staff transport a coronavirus patient within the Red Cross hospital in Wuhan on February .
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Inter Milan plays Ludogorets in an empty soccer stadium in Milan, Italy, on Thursday, February 27. The match was ordered to be played behind closed doors as Italian authorities continue to grapple with the coronavirus outbreak.
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A bank clerk disinfects banknotes in China’s Sichuan province on Wednesday. , February .
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A child wearing a protective face mask rides on a scooter in an empty area in Beijing.
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A Catholic devotee wears a face mask as he is sprinkled with ash during Ash Wednesday services in Paranaque, Philippines, on February .
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People disinfect Qom’s Masumeh shrine in Tehran, Iran, on February .
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A worker in Daegu stacks plastic buckets containing medical waste from coronavirus patients on February
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Paramedics carry a stretcher off an ambulance in Hong Kong on February
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People attend a professional soccer match in Kobe, Japan, on February 25. To help stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, the soccer club Vissel Kobe told fans not to sing, chant or wave flags in the season opener against Yokohama FC.
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A team of volunteers disinfects a pedestrian bridge in Bangkok, Thailand.
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A man rides his bike in Beijing on February
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Hospital personnel in Codogno, Italy, carry new beds inside the hospital on February . The hospital is hosting some people who have been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus.
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Doctors look at a CT scan of a lung at a hospital in Xiaogan, China, on February .
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A sales clerk wears a mask as she waits for customers at a hat shop in Beijing on February Small companies that help drive China’s economy are worried about how much damage the coronavirus outbreak will cause to business.
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A medical worker rests at the isolation ward of the Red Cross hospital in Wuhan on February .
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Authorities watch as the Westerdam cruise ship approaches a port in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, on February 20. Despite having no confirmed cases of coronavirus on board, the Westerdam was refused port by four other Asian countries before being allowed to dock in Cambodia.
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A worker has his temperature checked on a shuttered commercial street in Beijing on February
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Beds are made in the Wuhan Sports Center, which has been converted into a temporary hospital.
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A child rides a scooter past a police officer wearing protective gear outside the Hong Mei House in Hong Kong on February . More than 100 people evacuated the housing block after four residents in two different apartments tested positive for the coronavirus.
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Relatives of quarantined passengers wave at the Diamond Princess cruise ship as it leaves a port in Yokohama, Japan, to dump wastewater and generate potable water. Dozens of people on the ship were infected with coronavirus.
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The Deneway branch of the County Oak Medical Center is closed amid coronavirus fears in Brighton, England , on February 11. Several locations in and around Brighton were quarantined after a man linked to several coronavirus cases in the United Kingdom came into contact with health-care workers and members of the public.
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A police officer, left, wears protective gear as he guards a cordon at the Hong Mei House in Hong Kong on February 14
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A worker wears a protective suit as he waits to screen people entering an office building in Beijing on February 12. China’s workforce is slowly coming back to work after the coronavirus outbreak forced many parts of the country to extend the Lunar New Year holiday by more than a week.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has his temperature checked during an appearance in Beijing on February 14
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People participating in a Lunar New Year Parade in New York City hold signs reading, “Wuhan stay strong!” on February 9.
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A shopper walks past empty shelves at a grocery store in Hong Kong on February 9. China’s Ministry of Commerce encouraged supermarkets and grocery stores to resume operations as the country’s voluntary or mandatory quarantines began to take an economic toll.
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A worker wearing a protective suit uses a machine to disinfect a business establishment in Shanghai, China, on February 9.
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Workers in protective gear walk near the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in Yokohama on February 7.
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People in Hong Kong attend a vigil February 7 for whistleblower doctor Li Wenliang. Li, 90, died in Wuhan after contracting the virus while treating a patient.
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A woman grieves while paying tribute to Li at Li’s hospital in Wuhan on February 7.
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The Anthem of the Seas cruise ship is seen docked at the Cape Liberty Cruise Port in Bayonne, New Jersey, on February 7. Passengers were to be screened for coronavirus as a precaution, an official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told CNN.
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A light installation is displayed by striking members of the Hospital Authority Employees Alliance and other activists at the Hospital Authority building in Hong Kong on Feb ruary 7.
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Passengers are seen on the deck of the Diamond Princess cruise ship, docked at the Yokohama Port on February 7.
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Flight attendants wearing face masks make their way through Don Mueang Airport in Bangkok on February 7.
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Workers check sterile medical gloves at a latex-product manufacturer in Nanjing, China, on February 6.
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A woman wears a protective mask as she shops in a Beijing market on February 6.
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This aerial photo shows the Leishenshan Hospital that is being built in Wuhan to handle coronavirus patients.
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A passenger shows a note from the World Dream cruise ship docked at the Kai Tak cruise terminal in Hong Kong on February 5.
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A mask is seen on a statue in Beijing on February 5 .
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An ambulance stops at a traffic light in front of the Grand Lisboa Hotel in Macao. The virus turned China’s gambling mecca into a ghost town.
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A dog in Beijing wears a makeshift mask constructed from a paper cup .
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Striking hospital workers in Hong Kong demand the closure of the border with mainland China on February 4.
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The Diamond Princess cruise ship sits anchored in quarantine off the port of Yokohama on February 4. It arrived a day earlier with passengers feeling ill.
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A medical worker wearing protective gear waits to take the temperature of people entering Prince ss Margaret Hospital in Hong Kong on February 4.
Medical workers in protective suits help transfer patients to a newly completed field hospital in Wuhan.
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People wearing protective overalls talk outside a Wuhan hotel housing people in isolation on February 3.
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A man stands in front of TV screens broadcasting a speech by Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam on February 3. Lam said the city would shut almost all border-control points to the mainland.
A colleague sprays disinfectant on a doctor in Wuhan on February 3.
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Commuters in Tokyo walk past an electric board displaying dismal stock prices on February 3, the first business day after the Chinese New Year. Asia’s markets recorded their worst day in years as investors finally got a chance to react to the worsening coronavirus outbreak.
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Medical Workers move a coronavirus patient into an isolation ward at the Second People’s Hospital in Fuyang, China, on February 1.
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Children wear plastic bottles as makeshift masks while waiting to check in to a flight at the Beijing Capital Airport on January
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Passengers in Hong Kong wear protective masks as they wait to board a train at Lo Wu Station, near the mainland border, on January .
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A volunteer wearing protective clothing disinfects a street in Qingdao, China, on January 34.
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Nanning residents line up to buy face masks from a medical appliance store on January 34.
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Lyu Jun, left, a member of a medical team leaving for Wuhan, says goodbye to a loved one in Urumqi, China, on January .
A charter flight from Wuhan arrives at an airport in Anchorage, Alaska, on January . The US government chartered the plane to bring home US citizens and diplomats from the American consulate in Wuhan.
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in wears a mask to inspect the National Medical Center in Seoul on January
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Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, center, attends a news conference in Hong Kong on January . Lam said China will stop individual travelers to Hong Kong while closing some border checkpoints and restricting flights and train services from the mainland.
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Workers at an airport in Novosibirsk, Russia, check the temperatures of passengers who arrived from Beijing on January
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Alex Azar, the US Secretary of Health and Human Services, speaks during a news conference about the American public-health response.
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Two residents walk in an empty park in Wuhan on January 29. The city remained on lockdown for a fourth day.
A person wears a protective mask, goggles and coat as he stands in a nearly empty street in Beijing on January .
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Medical staff members bring a patient to the Wuhan Red Cross hospital on January .
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People wear protective masks as they walk under Lunar New Year decorations in Beijing on January
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Construction workers in Wuhan begin to work on a special hospital to deal with the outbreak on January 24.
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Dr . Allison Arwady, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, speaks to reporters on January (about a patient in Chicago who had been diagnosed with the coronavirus. The patient was the second in the United States to be diagnosed with the illness.
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A couple kisses goodbye as they travel for the Lunar New Year holiday in Beijing on January 24.
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Workers manufacture protective face masks at a factory in China’s Hubei Province on January 25.
Shoppers wear masks in a Wuhan market on January 23.
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Passengers are checked by a thermography device at an airport in Osaka, Japan, on January 24
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People wear masks while shopping for vegetables in Wuhan on January .
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A militia member checks the body temperature of a driver in Wuhan on January 25
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Passengers wear masks as they arrive at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila, Philippines, on January 23.
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A customer holds boxes of particulate respirators at a pharmacy in Hong Kong on January .
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Passengers wear masks at the high-speed train station in Hong Kong on January .
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A woman rides an electric bicycle in Wuhan on January .
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People in Guangzhou, China, wear protective masks on January .
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People go through a checkpoint in Guangzhou on January .
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Medical staff of Wuhan’s Union Hospital attend a gathering on January .
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Health officials hold a news conference in Beijing on January
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