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In pictures: The world battles with the pandemic

AP Published 07.04.20, 01:12 PM
A homeless person sits on a wheelchair under rainy weather on Sunset Blvd., in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles Monday, April 6, 2020. One population is particularly vulnerable to contracting and spreading the coronavirus: the homeless. Officials have vowed repeatedly to get them indoors, but testing shortages and bureaucratic wrangling are making it difficult. Relatively few of California's 150,000 homeless population have been moved into individual quarters. It's unclear how many even have the highly contagious virus. It's a problem playing out nationwide and it's unclear how many may even have coronavirus
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A homeless person sits on a wheelchair under rainy weather on Sunset Blvd., in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles Monday, April 6, 2020. One population is particularly vulnerable to contracting and spreading the coronavirus: the homeless. Officials have vowed repeatedly to get them indoors, but testing shortages and bureaucratic wrangling are making it difficult. Relatively few of California's 150,000 homeless population have been moved into individual quarters. It's unclear how many even have the highly contagious virus. It's a problem playing out nationwide and it's unclear how many may even have coronavirus

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A city worker sprays disinfectant as a man sleeps on the street, in central Mexico City, on Monday. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Sunday there will be no huge economic stimulus program as the country faces the threat of coronavirus-induced crisis almost certainly unlike any it has seen in the past century.
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A city worker sprays disinfectant as a man sleeps on the street, in central Mexico City, on Monday. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Sunday there will be no huge economic stimulus program as the country faces the threat of coronavirus-induced crisis almost certainly unlike any it has seen in the past century.

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In this March 18, 2020 photo, Nilu Asca, a 24-year-old single mother, struggles to pull a stroller holding her 2-year-old daughter Darleth up a flight of stairs, inside a building nicknamed “Luriganchito” after the country’s most populous prison, in Lima, Peru. Darleth has been diagnosed with hip dysplasia and must wear a spica cast. She and her mother are one of 44 families who reside in one of the small rooms of the deteriorating building, just a few blocks from the presidential palace.
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In this March 18, 2020 photo, Nilu Asca, a 24-year-old single mother, struggles to pull a stroller holding her 2-year-old daughter Darleth up a flight of stairs, inside a building nicknamed “Luriganchito” after the country’s most populous prison, in Lima, Peru. Darleth has been diagnosed with hip dysplasia and must wear a spica cast. She and her mother are one of 44 families who reside in one of the small rooms of the deteriorating building, just a few blocks from the presidential palace.

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Faithful look at an image of the archangel St. Michael, wearing a mask as required to all inhabitants of the country to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, during the Palm Sunday procession in Zambiza, near Quito, on Sunday
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Faithful look at an image of the archangel St. Michael, wearing a mask as required to all inhabitants of the country to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, during the Palm Sunday procession in Zambiza, near Quito, on Sunday

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This photo shows a hospital bed in one of the temporary rooms at the TCF Center, Monday, April 6, 2020, in Detroit. The city's convention center was converted to accommodate an overflow of patients with the coronavirus. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began construction at the TCF Center to create a quarantined hospital setting with 1,000 beds as the pandemic spreads rapidly in the city.
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This photo shows a hospital bed in one of the temporary rooms at the TCF Center, Monday, April 6, 2020, in Detroit. The city's convention center was converted to accommodate an overflow of patients with the coronavirus. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began construction at the TCF Center to create a quarantined hospital setting with 1,000 beds as the pandemic spreads rapidly in the city.

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A woman takes a picture of the University of Buenos Aires Law School colonnade during a government-ordered lockdown to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Monday
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A woman takes a picture of the University of Buenos Aires Law School colonnade during a government-ordered lockdown to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Monday

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Basketball hoops and backboards, removed from city parks, sit in a row outside a storage facility as a statewide stay-at-home order remains in effect in an effort to reduce the spread of the virus, on Monday, in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, United States
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Basketball hoops and backboards, removed from city parks, sit in a row outside a storage facility as a statewide stay-at-home order remains in effect in an effort to reduce the spread of the virus, on Monday, in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, United States

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A worker sanitizes streets near San Marco, in Venice, on Monday. The government is demanding Italians stay home and not take the leveling off of new coronavirus infections as a sign the emergency is over, following evidence that more and more Italians are relaxing restrictions the west's first and most extreme nationwide lockdown and production shutdown.
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A worker sanitizes streets near San Marco, in Venice, on Monday. The government is demanding Italians stay home and not take the leveling off of new coronavirus infections as a sign the emergency is over, following evidence that more and more Italians are relaxing restrictions the west's first and most extreme nationwide lockdown and production shutdown.

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A boy looks out from the window of his house of a residential building which is covered with a green cloth for outside repairing during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown in Mumbai, on Monday
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A boy looks out from the window of his house of a residential building which is covered with a green cloth for outside repairing during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown in Mumbai, on Monday

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A woman is reflected on a bus station as she wears a protective face mask amid concerns over the country's coronavirus outbreak, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Monday
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A woman is reflected on a bus station as she wears a protective face mask amid concerns over the country's coronavirus outbreak, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Monday

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