48 hours in pictures, 22 March 2020 – The Citizen news

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A sparrow enjoys petal from the garland flowers utilizing to worship Lord Brahma, the Hindu God of creation, on the abandoned Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, 22 March 2020. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration issued the order closing buying malls and different public locations within the effort to stop the unfold of COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic which killed one Thai man and the variety of COVID-19 infections surged to 599 individuals have been contaminated. EPA-EFE/RUNGROJ YONGRIT

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Croatian policemen arrive on the location of a broken constructing, in downtown Zagreb, on March 22, 2020, after an earthquake hit the nation at 06:00 am (zero500 GMT). A 5.Three-magnitude earthquake shook the Croatian capital of Zagreb on March 22, 2020, damaging buildings and reducing electrical energy in plenty of neighbourhoods. / AFP / Denis LOVROVIC

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Firefighters from Ahmedabad Fireplace and Emergency Companies take part in a decontamination course of with excessive stress mist at public locations throughout a one-day nationwide Janata (civil) curfew imposed as a safety measure in opposition to the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Ahmedabad on March 22, 2020. Almost one billion individuals around the globe have been confined to their houses, because the coronavirus dying toll crossed 13,000 and factories have been shut in worst-hit Italy after one other single-day fatalities report. / AFP / SAM PANTHAKY

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A Sadhu or a Hindu holyman, sits in entrance of closed retailers throughout a one-day nationwide Janata (civil) curfew imposed as a safety measure in opposition to the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Amritsar on March 22, 2020. Almost one billion individuals around the globe have been confined to their houses, because the coronavirus dying toll crossed 13,000 and factories have been shut in worst-hit Italy after one other single-day fatalities report. / AFP / NARINDER NANU

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A French police officer patrols by the “Promenade des Anglais” throughout a curfew within the French Riviera metropolis of Good, southern France, on the fifth day of a strict lockdown in France to cease the unfold of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus). / AFP / VALERY HACHE

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A free diver explores a Kelp forest within the Indian Ocean, False Bay, Cape City, South Africa, 21 March 2020. Big Kelp forests can prolong as much as three kilometers offshore of South Africa’s cape coastal waters. Kelp are the giants of the seaweed world being the quickest rising algae typically exceeding fifteen meters in size. The Kelp forests affect the waters round them by calming the waves, slowing the water and thus permitting it to be warmed by the solar. This creates a novel marine atmosphere well-liked with free divers through which hundreds of species thrive beneath these big tree like constructions. EPA-EFE/NIC BOTHMA

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Well being employees put together to obtain the primary sufferers with coronavirus at Ifema exhibition complicated on March 22, 2020 in Madrid, Spain. The Group of Madrid and the UME (Spanish Emergency Military Unit) are putting in a particular hospital for COVID-19 with 5,500 beds and an UCI (Intensive Care Unit). The variety of individuals confirmed to be contaminated with the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Spain has elevated to not less than 25,400, with the newest dying toll reaching 1,381 in accordance with the countrys Well being Ministry. (Picture by Comunidad de Madrid through Getty Photographs)

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A pair sit of their automotive as they watch a film screening at a drive-through cinema in Seoul. Field workplace numbers in South Korea — which has eight,897 confirmed virus circumstances — have plummeted in latest weeks as a result of epidemic, with authorities urging the general public to keep away from massive crowds. However at drive-in cinemas, moviegoers can take pleasure in a film from the consolation of their automobiles, parked in entrance of a giant out of doors display.
/ AFP / Ed JONES

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A pet canine carrying a fancy dress appears on at Ueno park in Tokyo on March 22, 2020. / AFP / Behrouz MEHRI

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A member of the particular forces police wears a face masks in opposition to the unfold of the brand new coronavirus as he stands guard in entrance of a mural depicting an individual carrying a face masks in Bogota on March 21, 2020. Colombian President Ivan Duque introduced obligatory preventive isolation from March 24 to April 13 as a measure in opposition to the unfold of the novel coronavirus. / AFP / Juan BARRETO

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A person protects his face with a plastic bag as he walks on the street in Paris on March 21, 2020 as a strick lockdown comes into in impact to cease the unfold of the COVID-19 within the nation. French President requested individuals to remain at residence to keep away from the spreading the Covid-19, saying solely essential journeys could be allowed and violations could be punished. The nation has already shut cafes, eating places, colleges and universities and urged individuals to restrict their movementnon-essential public locations together with eating places and cafes. / AFP / FRANCK FIFE

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A volunteer from the COVID-19 Motion Group arms out info leaflets and cleaning soap to residents of the Diepsloot Township in Johannesburg, South Africa, 21 March 2020. This group, working along with Operation SA and Laudium Catastrophe Administration, goals at hand out a million desserts of cleaning soap over the following few weeks to assist stop the unfold of the COVID-19 illness brought on by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus within the weak high-density areas of the nation’s largest metropolis. EPA-EFE/KIM LUDBROOK

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A lady and her canine stroll on a seashore in Cape City, South Africa, 21 March 2020. As South Africans regulate to Social Distancing and different protocols, the South African authorities is predicted to intensify measures to stem the unfold of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 which causes the Covid-19 illness. EPA-EFE/NIC BOTHMA