Shoppers walk through a sanitizing gate at a garment store after the government relaxed the weeks-long lockdown that was enforced to curb the spread of the coronavirus, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Tuesday, May 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) People wearing face masks and gloves to protect against coronavirus, observe social distancing guidelines as they go down the subway on the escalator in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, May 12, 2020. From Tuesday onward, wearing face masks and latex gloves is mandatory for people using Moscow’s public transport. President Vladimir Putin on Monday declared an end to a partial economic shutdown across Russia due to the coronavirus pandemic, but he said that many restrictions will remain in place. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) Passengers wearing face shields wait to take a bus at at the main bus station in Asuncion, Paraguay, Tuesday, May 12, 2020. The government is allowing bus travel up 100 km (about 62 miles) from the capital amid a partial lockdown amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz) A customer, center, wearing face mask protection tries on a garment in a clothes shop, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Tuesday, May 12, 2020. Roughly half of 47 million Spaniards are stepping into a softer version of the country’s coronavirus strict confinement and are beginning to socialize, today on second day, shop in small establishments and enjoy a meal or a coffee in restaurants and bars with outdoor seating. The hard-hit region around the Spanish capital, Madrid, and the economic powerhouse of Barcelona, in the northeastern Catalonia region, are among those territories that remain under stricter measures. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos) Andrea, 29 years old, is attended by hairstylist Laura Naturana in a hairdresser, Pamplona, northern Spain, Monday, May 4, 2020. Spaniards will be able to get a haircut, buy take away food as long as they have previously made an appointment and travel on public transport with mouth and nose covered with mandatory masks. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos) A woman wearing a face mask exits a shop along Makarios Avenue, a busy shopping street in the downtown of Cyprus’ capital Nicosia, on Monday, May 4, 2020. Retail shops were opened Monday, the first day of the gradual rolling back of a strict stay-at-home order that was enacted in late March to arrest the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias) Beachgoers sunbathe near a beach rules sign after Clearwater Beach officially reopened to the public Monday, May 4, 2020, in Clearwater Beach, Fla. Many public beaches and restaurants are reopening as part of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ plan to stop the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara) Amid concerns of the spread of COVID-19, Sameda Majano wipes the hand rails of the escalator at the Galleria Dallas mall in Dallas, Monday, May 4, 2020. (AP Photo/LM Otero) Louisa Boyer, a provisional election judge, reviews paperwork at a voting center at Edmondson High School as voters arrive to cast their ballot in the 7th Congressional District special election, Tuesday, April 28, 2020, in Baltimore. The election to fill a seat left open by the death last October of Congressman Elijah Cummings has been dramatically reshaped by the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) Volunteers of the Aun Rizvi Trust disinfect a mosque ahead of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Tuesday, April 21, 2020. Ramadan begins with the new moon later this week, Muslims all around the world are trying to work out how to maintain the many cherished rituals of Islam’s holiest month. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash) A boy wearing a face mask carries a small bowl of “githeri”, or mixed beans and maize, for him to eat as he walks past an informational mural warning people about the risk of the new coronavirus, painted by graffiti artists from the Mathare Roots youth group, in the Mathare slum, or informal settlement, of Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, April 18, 2020. Africa now has more than 1,000 deaths from COVID-19, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday, with 52 of the continent’s 54 countries having reported cases. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga) A member of the fire department wearing full protective gear sprays disinfectant from the fire engine in hopes of curbing the spread of the new coronavirus in a street Tuesday, April 21, 2020, in Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw) Voters observe social distancing guidelines as they wait in line to cast ballots at Washington High School while ignoring a stay-at-home order over the coronavirus threat to vote in the state’s presidential primary election, Tuesday, April 7, 2020, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash) In this Wednesday, April 15, 2020 file photo, a motorcycle delivery man rides past a billboard urging people to stay home over the coronavirus pandemic in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Wealthier Western countries are considering how to ease lockdown restrictions and start taking gradual steps toward reviving business and daily life. But many developing countries, particularly in the Middle East and Africa, can hardly afford the luxury of any misstep. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File) A man hangs selfmade face masks at his stall on the street in Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, April 16, 2020. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa extended the lockdown by an extra two weeks in a continuing effort to contain the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) A pedestrian walks past artwork painted on plywood covering a business closed during the coronavirus outbreak Thursday, April 16, 2020, in Seattle. More than 585,000 people in Washington sought unemployment benefits last week, with 143,000 people filing claims for the first time as businesses remain closed or with limited operations due to the stay-at-home order issued due to the cororavirus pandemic, state officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) NHS staff applaud outside the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London during the weekly “Clap for our Carers”, Thursday, April 16, 2020. The applause takes place across Britain every Thursday at 8pm local time to show appreciation for healthcare workers, emergency services, armed services, delivery drivers, shop workers, teachers, waste collectors, manufacturers, postal workers, cleaners, vets, engineers and all those helping people with coronavirus and keeping the country functioning while most people stay at home in the lockdown. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali) Marimba musicians wearing protective face masks perform outside an apartment building as a resident records their performance from inside his apartment, in Mexico City, Thursday, April 16, 2020. The wandering musicians, who usually perform at restaurants, have taken to performing in neighborhoods in hopes that the residents in voluntary lockdown will tip them, which many do. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) A passenger who was on the Australian cruise ship “Greg Mortimer,” who the Uruguayan military confirms suffers COVID-19, is helped down from a small Navy boat after leaving the cruise ship to be taken to a local hospital in Montevideo, Uruguay, Wednesday, April 8, 2020. The military said two passengers from the cruiser were taken to the hospital. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico) In this Friday, April 17, 2020, photo, medical staff test a supermarket employee who volunteered at a pop-up community COVID-19 testing station at a carpark in Christchurch, New Zealand. New Zealand has set itself an ambitious goal of not just containing the coronavirus, but eliminating it altogether. Experts believe the country could pull it off, thanks to its geography and decisive early actions by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who has put the country into a strict lockdown. But whatever happens, the country will continue feeling the effects of the pandemic, which has hobbled its vital tourism industry. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) A health worker wearing personal protective gear inside a testing tent, gestures colleagues during the screening and testing for COVID-19, in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday, April 8, 2020. South Africa and more than half of Africa’s 54 countries have imposed lockdowns, curfews, travel bans or other restrictions to try to contain the spread of COVID-19. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) A worker wearing protective gears sprays disinfectant as a precautionary measure against COVID-19 during a nationwide confinement to counter the virus, in Suresnes, outside Paris, Tuesday, March 31, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) City workers fumigate a street to help contain the spread of the new coronavirus in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, April 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Juan Karita) People prepare places to sleep in area marked by painted boxes on the ground of a parking lot at a makeshift camp for the homeless Monday, March 30, 2020, in Las Vegas. Officials opened part of a parking lot as a makeshift homeless shelter after a local shelter closed when a man staying there tested positive for the coronavirus. (AP Photo/John Locher) Police officers walk across an empty Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 31, 2020. The Russian capital has woken up to a lockdown obliging most people in the city of 13 million to stay home. The government ordered other regions of the vast country to quickly prepare for the same as Moscow, to stem the spread of the new coronavirus. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin) Motorists are sprayed with disinfectant in an attempt to curb the spread of coronavirus outbreak at the gate of a housing complex in South Tangerang, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 31, 2020. Indonesia will close its doors to foreign arrivals in an attempt to curb the coronavirus spread while the country plans to bring home more than a million nationals working abroad. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana) The Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort docks in New York, Monday, March 30, 2020. The ship has 1,000 beds and 12 operating rooms that could be up and running within 24 hours of its arrival on Monday morning. It’s expected to bolster a besieged health care system by treating non-coronavirus patients while hospitals treat people with COVID-19. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) Municipal workers sanitize the areas surrounding the Giza pyramids complex in hopes of curbing the coronavirus outbreak in Egypt, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty) Tourists practice social distancing as they wait to extend their visa at Immigration Bureau in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, March 27, 2020. Tourists across Asia are finding their dream vacations have turned into travel nightmares as airlines cancel flights and countries close their borders in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) Workers wearing protective gear spray disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus, at the main market in Gaza City, Friday, March 27, 2020. Gaza municipality close all the weekly Friday markets in Gaza starting from today. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) In this Tuesday, March 24, 2020, photo a sign hangs on a closed ski lift in Vail, Colo., after Vail Ski Resort closed for the season amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Ski resorts across the West that were shut down amid coronavirus fears are grappling with an economic “body blow” at a time when they normally would be welcoming hoards of spring break revelers. (AP Photo/Michael Ciaglo) A billboard is installed on an apartment building in Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, March 25, 2020, before the country of 57 million people, will go into a nationwide lockdown for 21 days from Thursday to fight the spread of the new coronavirus. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht) Medical personnel are silhouetted against the back of a tent before the start of coronavirus testing in the parking lot outside of Raymond James Stadium early Wednesday, March 25, 2020, in Tampa, Fla. The testing is being done by appointment only. (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara) People stand in a queue maintaining physical distance to buy grocery outside a store during the coronavirus pandemic in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. The world’s largest democracy went under the world’s biggest lockdown Wednesday, with India’s 1.3 billion people ordered to stay home in a bid to stop the coronavirus pandemic from spreading and overwhelming its fragile health care system as it has done elsewhere. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade) A Serbian soldier inspects beds for treatment of possible COVID-19 infected patients inside of the Belgrade Fair, Serbia, Tuesday, March 24, 2020. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic) A man is disinfected inside a cubicle before entering local the city hall to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in Manila, Philippines on Tuesday, March 24, 2020. For most people the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, but for some it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) A couple wearing masks as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, spend the afternoon at the malecon in Havana, Cuba, Monday, March 23, 2020. The vast majority of people recover from the COVID-19 disease. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) A pilot looks over sparse crowds at a check-in counter at the United terminal at Los Angeles International Airport, Tuesday, March 24, 2020, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) A line of volunteers carries iPads to be delivered to parents at curbside pickup at Eastside Elementary, Monday, March 23, 2020, in Clinton, Miss. Educators are handing out the devices for remote learning while students are forced to stay home during the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) An elderly woman, wearing a protective face mask is sprayed with a disinfectant bleach solution by a soldier as a preventive measure against the spread of the new coronavirus, at the entrance of a food market in Caracas, Venezuela, March 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) Anna Louisa, 18, receives her school laptop for home study at the Lower East Side Preparatory School, Thursday, March 19, 2020, in New York, as coronavirus restrictions shuttered classrooms throughout the city. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo tightened work-from-home rules as confirmed cases continued to climb in New York, an expected jump as testing becomes more widespread. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) The relative of an inmate cries outside La Modelo jail in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, March 22, 2020. Violence broke out in the prison out of inmates’ fears that authorities are not doing enough to prevent coronavirus inside overcrowded prisons. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia) A man is carried away after collapsing while waiting in line to get a Coronavirus test in Marseille, southern France, Monday March 23, 2020. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole) A 17-year-old who asked not to be named wears a yellow hazmat suit, gas mask, boots, and gloves as he walks with his family, from Gaithersburg, Md., under cherry blossom trees in full bloom along the tidal basin, Sunday, March 22, 2020, in Washington. “I’m not worried for me since I’m young,” says the 17-year-old, “I’m wearing this in case I come into contact with anyone who is older so that I won’t be a threat to them.” He plans to wear his protective outfit for coronavirus each time he leaves the house. Sections of the National Mall and tidal basin areas have been closed to vehicular traffic to encourage people to practice social distancing and not visit Washington’s iconic cherry blossoms this year due to coronavirus concerns. The trees are in full bloom this week and would traditionally draw a large crowd. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) In this photo taken on Thursday, March 19, 2020, Sien Lagae, works on a mouth mask, meant to help protect from the spread of COVID-19, on her sewing machine at home in Torhout, Belgium. Lagae runs a social media group of volunteers who are making mouth masks for family and friends as well as hospital and caregivers in Belgium due to a shortage in supply of industrially made masks. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia.(Sien Lagae via AP) Volunteer workers of Search and Rescue (SAR) with special equipment, disinfect a volunteer after disinfecting a police car at Local Police station to prevent the spread of coronavirus COVID-19, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Sunday, March 22, 2020. For some people the COVID-19 coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, but for some it causes severe illness. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos) Rich Anderson, center, associate director at the branch of the Volunteers of America, helps Mary Machin, left, and Kortnie Gardner as they prepare bags of lunch as daily demands for food increase while most vulnerable individuals and families shelter inside to reduce the spread of the coronavirus Monday, March 23, 2020, in Denver. According to the World Health Organization, most people recover in about three to six weeks depending on the severity of the COVID-19 illness. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) A convoy of Italian Army trucks arrives from Bergamo carrying bodies of coronavirus victims to the cemetery of Ferrara, Italy, where they will be cremated, Saturday, March 21, 2020. The transfer was made necessary since Bergamo mortuary reached maximum capacity. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness, especially in older adults and people with existing health problems. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP) In this March 17, 2020, file photo a man, who hoped to vote in the scheduled primary election, stands outside a closed polling station at Schiller Recreation Center in Columbus, Ohio. U.S. elections have been upended by the coronavirus pandemic. At least 13 states have postponed voting and more delays are possible as health officials warn that social distancing and other measures to contain the virus might be in place for weeks, if not months. (Joshua A. Bickel/The Columbus Dispatch via AP, File) In this photo taken Dec. 11 2012, a park ranger wearing a mask walks past a mountain gorilla in the Virunga National Park in eastern Congo. Congo’s Virunga National Park, home to about a third of the world’s mountain gorillas, has barred visitors until June 1 2020, citing “advice from scientific experts indicating that primates, including mountain gorillas, are likely susceptible to complications arising from the COVID-19 virus.”(AP Photo/Jerome Delay) A woman walks her dog under a “don’t panic” sign hanging on the entrance of a food market that was shut down in order to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, March 23, 2020. In Israel daily life has largely shut down with COVID-19 cases multiplying greatly over the past week. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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