Lockdown in Nepal, a drive-up church service in Tennessee, urban deer in Sri Lanka, a porch concert in California, a medical isolation booth in Boston, a medical detection dog in England, a sanitizing tunnel in Mexico, the arrival of the USNS Comfort hospital ship in New York City, and much more
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Read moreTiahne O’Loughlin-Johnson, 18, stands inside the doorway of her home on the Sunshine Coast, Australia, on March 31, 2020. Tiahne says she misses spending time with her friends, many of whom have canceled birthday celebrations. “I was hoping to travel and work in the U.K. next year, but now I feel really anxious about the future—being able to get work.” Public gatherings are now limited to two people after the Australian government introduced tougher restrictions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. #
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Read moreA man walks through a sanitizing tunnel installed outside of a subway station in Escobedo, Nuevo León, Mexico, on March 29, 2020, as a preventive measure against the spread of the new coronavirus. The tunnel consists of an inflatable unit that continuously sprays a sanitizing product used in hospitals. #
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Read moreA policeman wearing a spiked coronavirus-themed helmet rides on a horse during an awareness rally aimed at preventing the spread of the new coronavirus in Hyderabad, India, on April 2, 2020. #
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Read morePeople in Weehawken, New Jersey, watch the USNS Comfort hospital ship arrive to New York City on March 30, 2020. The naval hospital has 1,000 beds and 12 operating rooms. #
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Read more“Freya” correctly detects a sample of malaria from a row of pots at the Medical Detection Dogs headquarters in Milton Keynes, England, on March 27, 2020. The charity is currently working with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine to test whether the dogs can be retrained in the next six weeks to provide a rapid, non-invasive diagnosis of the new coronavirus. Medical Detection Dogs has successfully trained its canines to detect cancer, Parkinson’s disease, and bacterial infections through the sense of smell and is now looking for donations to help cover the costs of the intensive program. #
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Read moreDr. Sherry Yu demonstrates a free-standing booth for COVID-19 testing at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 1, 2020. The isolation booths were created by the hospital’s clinical leaders and engineering team, inspired by a South Korean research design. The booths separate clinicians from patients, protect front-line providers, and reduce the need for personal protective equipment. #
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Read moreA medical staff member watches from the platform as a COVID-19 patient lies in a train at the Gare d'Austerlitz station in Paris, France, on April 1, 2020. Thirty-six patients in the city are being transferred via medicalized high-speed TGV trains to hospitals in Brittany, as western France is less impacted by the epidemic. #
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Read moreMedical staffers who are treating coronavirus patients pose for pictures during their break time at Saint George Hospital University Medical Center in the eastern Achrafieh district of Beirut, Lebanon, on April 2, 2020. #
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Read moreResidents of a Hillbrow, Johannesburg, building watch from the balconies as a police operation is conducted to make sure everyone observes the country’s lockdown, on March 28, 2020. South Africa issued a nationwide lockdown on March 27, 2020, joining other African countries in imposing strict measures to halt the spread of the new coronavirus across the continent. #
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Read moreFrench opera singer Stéphane Sénéchal sings at his window in memory of Julie, Europe’s youngest known victim of the coronavirus at age 16, on March 27, 2020, in Paris, France. #
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Read morePope Francis delivers an extraordinary “Urbi et Orbi” (“to the city and to the world”) blessing—normally given only at Christmas and Easter—from an empty St. Peter’s Square, as a response to the global coronavirus outbreak, at the Vatican, on March 27, 2020. #
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Read moreA wild deer, from a herd accustomed to mingling with and being fed by the local population, roams in a deserted street during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown in the port city of Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, on March 31, 2020. #
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Read morePeople walk in the fields near the UNESCO World Heritage site Kinderdijk, famous for its windmills, and closed until April 30 as the Netherlands attempts to curb the spread of COVID-19 through social distancing on March 29, 2020. #
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Read moreMedical and physician-assistant students wear personal protective equipment as they prepare to screen for coronavirus cases at a camp for the homeless in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 28, 2020. #
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Read moreA health worker wearing a protective suit prepares before entering the intensive-care unit of COVID-19 patients at the Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon, Portugal, on April 2, 2020. #
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Read morePeople keep their bags inside marked areas on a street as they wait to receive free rice distributed at a government store during a nationwide lockdown in Hyderabad, India, on April 1, 2020. #
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Read moreLisa George and her children Charlotte and Calvin watch as cars parade by their home to celebrate the kids’ fifth birthday while isolating amid the coronavirus outbreak in St-Eugène, Ontario, Canada, on April 1, 2020. #
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Read moreA public-works employee removes a basketball rim from a court on the north side of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on March 30, 2020. The rims were removed because people were not following social-distancing rules while using the courts over the weekend. #
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Read morePalestinian fitness trainer and bodybuilder Ahmed Sawi uses alternative equipment to train at his home in Gaza City on April 1, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. #
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Read morePeople defying the lockdown are put inside an enclosure along the street, as a punishment during the eighth day of the order imposed by the government, in Kathmandu, Nepal, on March 31, 2020. #
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