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A Chinese health worker carries out a nucleic acid test on a journalist covering events around the National People's Congress in Beijing, China.GettyPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks to media during a press conference at the Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa, in Wellington, New Zealand.GettyEmployees from Fatih Municipality clean and disinfect Istanbul's famous Egyptian Bazaar (Spice Market) amid the spread of the coronavirus.GettyOwner Dan Paine steam cleans the seats in rows that won't be in use due to Covid-19 social distancing spacing on opening day at Matakana Cinema in Auckland, New Zealand.Getty\Australian triathlete Aaron Royle swims during a training session in Wollongong Harbour.GettyRace horses are seen exercising on Epsom Downs in Epsom, England.GettySupporters of the "Generation Rescue Package" ("Generationen Rettungsschirm") campaign hold up orange umbrellas at the campaign's official launch in front of the Chancellery during the coronavirus crisis in Berlin, Germany.GettyA woman passes a fence outside Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery adorned with tributes to victims of COVID-19, in New York.APVeterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie, left, speaks with Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., right, on Capitol Hill in Washington.APIndonesian Muslims pray spaced apart as they practice social distancing to curb the spread of the new coronavirus during an Eid al-Fitr prayer marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia.APChase Elliott does a burnout after winning a NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord.AP
