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People have lunch in a Taiwanese hot pot style restaurant that reopened after the easing of restrictions with the implementation of a plastic barrier and social distancing measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Bangkok, Thailand, May 4, 2020. REUTERS/Jorge Silva
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A Saudi jeweller wearing a protective face mask displays a gold necklace to a customer at a jewellery store during the holy month of Ramadan, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia May 5, 2020. REUTERS/Ahmed Yosri
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Employees at a polyfoam factory, wear face masks during work time, complying with the company protocol within the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, in Bogota on May 5, 2020. / AFP / Raul ARBOLEDA
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FILE - This April 17, 2020 file photo shows pedestrians and cyclists moving through an empty Times Square in New York. COVID-19 has shaken theater fans and shuttered all New York City's venues, including Broadway, which grossed $1.8 billion last season and attracted a record 15 million people. How Broadway — one the city's jewels — will reopen is still not clear. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
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A grocery worker, wearing a protective mask and gloves, helps checking out a customer from behind a plexiglass barrier at the 99 Ranch Market in the Van Nuys section of Los Angeles on Tuesday May, 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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Amid concerns of the spread of COVID-19, brothers Brian, left, and David Rayo wear masks as they pick up school lunches for themselves and other siblings at their apartment complex in Dallas, Tuesday, May 5, 2020. The Richardson ISD school lunch program is meeting the needs of students in Dallas County by distributing daily lunches at different apartments and school locations. According to this site manager, 200-250 meals are distributed daily at this apartment complex. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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OCEAN CITY, MD - APRIL 26: A woman rides her longboard through the empty boardwalk parking lot as twilight settles on April 26, 2020 in Ocean City, Maryland. The coronavirus pandemic shut down the city just before Easter Sunday which usually marks the beginning of the tourist season. Many hotel, restaurant, and tourism industry workers rely on the seasonal business during the warm months to provide most of their yearly income. Samuel Corum/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
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A woman wears mask as she leaves a store during the coronavirus pandemic in Deerfield, Ill., Tuesday, May 5, 2020. New Illinois rules about wearing a face mask over age 2 start Friday, May 1, when they can't maintain a 6 foot social distance in public. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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A hairdresser tints and cuts hair of a customer in his hairdressing salon in Berlin, Germany, Monday, May 4, 2020. After weeks of a lockdown due to the new coronavirus outbreak German hairdresser reopend their shops on Monday. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
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People have lunch in a Taiwanese hot pot style restaurant that reopened after the easing of restrictions with the implementation of a plastic barrier and social distancing measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Bangkok, Thailand, May 4, 2020. REUTERS/Jorge Silva
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Belarus' servicemen wearing protective gear disinfect a school in the village of Mikhanavichy outside Minsk on May 3, 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic. Life has continued as normal in Belarus, whose authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko has dismissed World Health Organisation recommendations to impose a virus lockdown. / AFP / Sergei GAPON
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A man, wearing a mask as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, checks his phone at downtown Guatemala City, Monday, May 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
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People, some wearing masks as a precaution, shop at an outdoor fruit and vegetable stall in the London borough of Newham, east London, on May 2, 2020, as life in Britain continues during the nationwide lockdown due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Britain's overall death toll from the coronavirus outbreak rose by 739 to 27,510 on Friday, as new data indicated that people in disadvantaged areas were worse hit. Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures analysing deaths between March 1 and April 17 showed that the London was the epicentre of Britain's outbreak with the east London borough of Newham the worst hit area, with 144.3 deaths per 100,000 people. / AFP / Ben STANSALL
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Women, wearing protective face masks as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, shop at a local market in Asuncion, Paraguay, Tuesday, May 5, 2020. The government authorized the reopening of some businesses under a plan coined, "intelligent quarantineâ€'. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
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Workers affix a poster to a shuttered business in Philadelphia, Monday, May 4, 2020. The Center City District and Mural Arts Philadelphia posted the original works on multiple locations in an effort to enhance the neighborhood awash with business shuttered to help curb the spread of coronavirus. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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A woman bikes past a mural painted on a closed business, Tuesday, May 5, 2020, in Austin, Texas. Texas' stay-at-home orders due to the COVID-19 pandemic have expired and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has eased restrictions on many businesses that have now opened, but bars and clubs remain closed. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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A passenger walks at an empty hall of the Madrid-Barajas Adolfo Suarez Airport's Terminal 4 in Barajas on May 5, 2020 amid the national lockdown to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 disease. More than 70 percent of new virus cases detected in Spain over the past 24 hours have been among medical staff, the health ministry said today. With the epidemic well in remission after peaking over a month ago, Spain standshas begun moves to ease out of the lockdown following weeks in which the rate of deaths and new infections has steadily declined. / AFP / OSCAR DEL POZO
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Newborn baby Phuc An is seen inside a medical incubator as his father Thiem Nguyen (R), uncle Sam Nguyen (C) and his aunt Liem Nguyen, wearing protective masks, look on at Vinmec hospital during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Hanoi, Vietnam April 1, 2020. Phuc An was born at Vinmec hospital in Hanoi on April 1, when the Southeast Asian country started strict restrictions on movement to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic that has infected more than 3 million people worldwide. The three-week lockdown put most of the social and economic activities throughout the country on hold, but life must go on, and giving birth couldn?t be delayed. Picture taken April 1, 2020. REUTERS/Kham
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A dog walker in a mask walks his dogs in Camberley, southwest of London, on May 2, 2020 as life in Britain goes on under lockdown in an effort to halt transmission of the novel coronavirus. / AFP / Adrian DENNIS
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Amid concerns of the spread of COVID-19, a shopper leaves a Gucci store as other wait to enter at North Park Mall in Dallas, Saturday, May 2, 2020. Texas charged into its first weekend of re-opening the economy with residents allowed to go back to malls, restaurants, movie theaters and retail stores in limited numbers. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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A woman wearing a face mask as a precaution walks past a shop window on Oxford Street in London on May 2, 2020, as life in Britain continues during the nationwide lockdown due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Britain's overall death toll from the coronavirus outbreak rose by 739 to 27,510 on May 1. / AFP / JUSTIN TALLIS
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Felix Hassebroek plays with a comb as his mother, Naomi gives him a haircut at their home, after watching several YouTube tutorials on the process, during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., May 1, 2020. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs
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A hairdresser wearing a face mask cuts the hair of a customer at Madrid?s oldest barber's shop, on the first day of opening during the lockdown, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Madrid, Spain, May 4, 2020. REUTERS/Sergio Perez
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Gladys Serrano, 60, wearing a mask as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, shows a white flag as a sign that she needs food assistance, while standing at Constitution square in Guatemala City, Monday, May 4, 2020. Serrano says she received a box of food from the government in early April and that since the weekend she has nothing to feed her husband and grandson. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
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An employee wearing a face mask pushes a cart of hand sanitizer at PastryStar on May 4, 2020, in Laurel, Maryland. At the Picou family's factory in Laurel, Maryland outside the US capital, the only workshop that is buzzing is usually reserved for making jams for baking. Now, it's churning out hand sanitizer. Before the coronavirus pandemic, PastryStar -- founded stateside in 1986 -- made a wide array of products for high-end baking, supplying everything from chic restaurants to cruise lines. / AFP / Olivier DOULIERY / TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Delphine TOUITOU, "From pastry to hand sanitizer: French clan on US virus front line"
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A vendor wears a protective face mask at a hotdog stand in a fashion shopping center in Ashdod, as restrictions over the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) ease around Israel, May 5, 2020. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
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A woman wearing a protective mask pushes her baby in a stroller in Dubai Marina on May 5, 2020, after authorities of the United Arab Emirates started to ease a national lockdown put in place to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. / AFP / Karim SAHIB
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A worker, wearing a protective mask and gloves amid the COVID-19 pandemic, helps a client at a shop in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on May 5, 2020. Yemen's Huthi rebels announced the first coronavirus death in the capital Sanaa, which they control, stoking new fears of a major outbreak in the war-torn country. Yemen's healthcare system has been blighted by years of conflict that has driven millions from their homes and plunged the country into what the United Nations calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis / AFP / Mohammed HUWAIS
Updated 06 May 2020
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Life in the age of coronavirus

Life in the age of coronavirus

People around the world adapt to a new normal of staying at home, social distancing, masks and empty streets during the coronavirus pandemic.

(Photos: Agencies)