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COVID-19: Global reaction to new coronavirus

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Pakistani health personnel take part in a drill as a preventative measures during an emergency of coronavirus outbreak, in Peshawar, Pakistan, today. Pakistani health officials reported coronavirus cases in Pakistan.
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Women collect their access cards at a registration kiosk for people who returning from outside at a residential apartment building following the coronavirus outbreak in Beijing, today. China's manufacturing plunged in February as anti-virus controls shut down much of the world's second-largest economy, but companies are confident activity will revive following government stimulus efforts, according to two surveys.
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A worker wearing protective gear sprays disinfectant as a precaution against the new coronavirus at a department store in Seoul, South Korea, today. South Korea has the world's second-highest cases.
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Commuters wearing masks stand in a packed train at the Shinagawa Station in Tokyo, today. Coronavirus has spread to more than 60 countries, and more than 3,000 people have died from the COVID-19 illness it causes.
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Women wear protective face masks near an information banner on the new coronavirus at a train station in Jakarta, Indonesia, today. Indonesia confirmed its first cases in two people who contracted the illness from a foreign traveler.
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A person wearing a mask walks past a sign banning visitors at the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., near Seattle, today. Dozens of people associated with the facility are reportedly ill with respiratory symptoms or hospitalized and are being tested for the COVID-19 virus.
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President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, accompanied by members of the coronavirus task force, meet with pharmaceutical executives in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington today.
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People wearing face masks walk on a sidewalk in downtown Tehran, Iran, today.
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Workers clean the Grand Mosque, during the minor pilgrimage, known as Umrah, in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, today. At Islam’s holiest site in Mecca, restrictions put in place by Saudi Arabia to halt the spread of the new coronavirus saw far smaller crowds than usual today.
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A small number of pilgrims circumambulate around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, during the minor pilgrimage, known as Umrah, in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, today.
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A worker wearing protective gear sprays disinfectant as a precaution against the new coronavirus in an eyeglass shop at a department store in Seoul, South Korea, today.
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An Indian man with symptoms fills a form at a Corona virus help desk at the Government Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad, India, today.
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Workers disinfect a classroom as part of sterilization campaign against the new coronavirus, at the Evangelical School, in Loueizeh, east of Beirut, Lebanon, today.
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A worker wearing protective gear carries a box from an entrance gate to a pickup point outside a construction site at the Central Business District following the coronavirus outbreak in Beijing today.
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Pakistani health personnel take part in a drill as a preventative measures during an emergency of coronavirus outbreak, in Peshawar, Pakistan, today.
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Tourist wear face masks as she watches the Changing of the Guard, at Buckingham Palace, in London today. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told reporters Sunday at a health center in London that he was “very, very confident” that Britain’s National Health Service can cope with the coronavirus outbreak.
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A tourist wears a face mask as she watches the Changing of the Guard, at Buckingham Palace, in London today.
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A worker at the Emergency Response Coordination Center in Brussels views a screen with graphics regarding COVID-19 today.
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A passenger walks through the Tokyo train station today.
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Tourists take photographs in a nearly empty St. Mark's Square during a rainy day in Venice today.