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BEIJING, CHINA - MARCH 05: A local resident covers her face as she passes a Chinese volunteer from Blue Sky Rescue wears a protective suit as he uses fumigation equipment to disinfect common areas of a local residential compound on March 5, 2020 in Beijing, China. Blue Sky Rescue, which is China's largest non-profit rescue NGO, is said to have over 30,000 members and trained to assist in emergencies and natural disasters. The number of cases of the deadly new coronavirus COVID-19 being treated in China dropped to below 26,000 in mainland China Thursday, in what the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global public health emergency last month. China continued to lock down the city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus, in an effort to contain the spread of the pneumonia-like disease. Officials in Beijing have put in place a mandatory 14 day quarantine for all people returning to the capital from other places in China and countries with a large number of cases like South Korea and Japan. The number of those who have died from the virus in China climbed to over 3016 on Thursday, mostly in Hubei province, and cases have been reported in other countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, India, Iran, Italy, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and several others. The World Health Organization has warned all governments to be on alert and raised concerns over a possible pandemic. Some countries, including the United States, have put restrictions on Chinese travellers entering and advised their citizens against travel to China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer.)

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - MARCH 14: Airport security staff attempt to control the crowd as Filipinos hoping to get on flights out of Manila hours before it is placed on lockdown queue at Ninoy Aquino International Airport on March 14, 2020 in Manila, Philippines. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced on Thursday that he would place some 12 million people in the capital Manila on lockdown and suspend government work for a month to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The Philippines' Department of Health has so far confirmed 98 cases of the deadly coronavirus in the country, with at least 8 recorded fatalities. (Photo by Ezra Acayan.)

WUHAN, CHINA - FEBRUARY 03: (CHINA OUT) A man crosses an empty highway road on February 3, 2020 in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. The number of those who have died from the Wuhan coronavirus, known as 2019-nCoV, in China climbed to 361 and cases have been reported in other countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, India, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and several others. (Photo by Getty Images stringer.)

A cleaning crew wearing protective protective equipment (PPE) prepares to enter the Life Care Center on March 12, 2020 in Kirkland, Washington. The nursing home in the Seattle suburbs was an early hotspot in the U.S. pandemic and was linked to dozens of deaths among residents, staff and first responders. Nationwide, nursing home residents would be the most vulnerable to Covid-19, accounting for more than one third of total deaths. (Photo by John Moore.)

Medics intubate a patient, 92, with COVID-19 symptoms at his home on April 06, 2020 in Yonkers, New York. EMS Capt. AJ Briones and EMT Michelle Melo from Empress EMS were able to stabilize the man and transport him to a local hospital, although he died while in a coma a week later. Emergency medical services (EMS) medics are the healthcare workers most on the frontline in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic. Medics must enter the homes of infected and highly contagious patients, often treating them with life-saving procedures, including intubations, before transporting them to local hospitals. (Photo by John Moore.)

BERGAMO, ITALY - APRIL 7: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) A nurse attends to a COVID-19 patient that is wearing a CPAP helmet while he is moved out of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Pope John XXIII Hospital on April 7, 2020 in Bergamo, Italy. The number of new COVID-19 cases appears to be decreasing in Italy, including in the province of Bergamo, one of its hardest-hit areas. But as the infection rate slows, life is still far from normal. A local newspaper, the Eco di Bergamo, estimates that the province has lost roughly 4,800 people to coronavirus - almost twice an official tally that only counts hospital deaths - and everyone here knows someone who's fallen ill: a neighbor, a family member, a relative, a friend or an acquaintance. Since February 23, the day of the first COVID-19 hospitalization, nearly 1,600 people have been hospitalized at Pope John XXIII hospital in Bergamo. Although the situation is improving, the hospital continues to see a high volume of coronavirus patients. On the busiest days during the crisis, its emergency room saw peaks of more than 100 serious coronavirus patients and used up to 146 CPAP helmets to provide non-invasive ventilation. More than 450 additional hospital beds were activated in just a few days, with 92 ICU beds devoted to COVID-19 patients. (Photo by Marco Di Lauro.)

L´HOSPITALET DEL LLOBREGAT, SPAIN - APRIL 09: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) An Intensive Care doctor in protective suit looks after a COVID-19 patient in a box of the ICU of the Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge on April 09, 2020 in L´Hospitalet del Llobregat, near Barcelona, Spain. More than 7,000 people are being treated in Intensive Care Units (ICU) across Spain, the Autonomous region of Catalonia is the worst affected with more than 2,500 patients. The national death toll has passed 15,000 due to the COVID-19 outbreak, although the country has reported a decline in the daily number of deaths. (Photo by David Ramos.)

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 22: Omar Rodriguez organizes bodies in the Gerard Neufeld funeral home in Queens on April 22, 2020 in New York City. The decades old funeral home, that now primarily serves an immigrant community in Queens that has been hit hard by coronavirus, has been overwhelmed by the number of deceased needing their funeral services because of the virus. Before COVID-19, the funeral home handled an average of seven or eight bodies per week and now are seeing over forty. The Queens community has been one of the most devastated communities in America and the world by COVID-19 (Photo by Spencer Platt.)

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 4: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) (EDITOR'S NOTE: Image depicts death.) After picking up remains of a victim of COVID-19, Lily Sage Weinrieb calls relatives for a virtual viewing before cremation on May 4, 2020 in New York City. After studying at the American Academy McAllister Institute, Lily Sage Weinrieb, 25, from Philadelphia, PA started her residency as a funeral director at International Hamilton Heights Funeral Home in Harlem. Before the pandemic, the home averaged 30-40 clients per month. Now, that number has quadrupled. Between transferring remains from hospitals, viewings, paperwork, embalmments, crematorium and cemetery runs, Lily works from 8am to midnight. She often sleeps on a couch in the funeral chapel. She is completely overwhelmed scheduling funerals for a month in advance and not able to do many aspects of her job like being able to console grieving relatives with a hug nor a touch and limiting numbers at viewing and burials. Despite these impediments, Lily attempts to find solutions such as video viewings and other ceremonies. (Photo by Misha Friedman.)
 

WANTAGH, NEW YORK - MAY 24: Olivia Grant (R) hugs her grandmother, Mary Grace Sileo through a plastic drop cloth hung up on a homemade clothes line during Memorial Day Weekend on May 24, 2020 in Wantagh, New York. It is the first time they have had contact of any kind since the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic lockdown started in late February. (Photo by Al Bello.)

VALLE DE CHALCO, MEXICO - JUNE 24: A woman kisses the coffin of her relative, presumed victim of Covid-19 on June 24, 2020 in Valle de Chalco, Mexico. More than 300 graves have been digged at the San Miguel Xico cemetery due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. Most of the graves are for confirmed or suspected deceased victims with the virus. (Photo by Manuel Velasquez.)

SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - APRIL 01: An aerial view of Vila Formosa cemetery during a burial amidst the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Sao Paulo, Brazil on April 01, 2020. According to the Ministry of Health, as of today, Brazil has 6,836 confirmed cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) and at least 241 recorded deaths. (Photo by Miguel Schincariol.)

INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA - APRIL 06: Roman-Catholic priest Johannes Laichner spreads incense among photographs of members of his congregation while leading mass during the coronavirus crisis in Tyrol province on April 6, 2020 in Innsbruck, Austria. Laichner has received over 1,000 photographs and attaches them to the benches in his church. He records his daily mass on video, which he uploads for viewing by his congregation via Internet by the evening. Current restrictions on public life imposed by authorities in Austria in an effort to stem the spread of the coronavirus make gatherings like a church service temporarily illegal, so Laichner has come up with his online mass as a means to adhere to the law while still reaching his flock. (Photo by Jan Hetfleisch.)

HOUSTON, TX - DECEMBER 10: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) From left, medical staff members Kirbie Standley, Gabriel Cervera Rodriguez, Diana Escalante, Quantavia Love, and Ladarious Styles dance to a Christmas song at nursing station in the COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) at the United Memorial Medical Center on December 10, 2020 in Houston, Texas. According to reports, Texas has reached over 1,390,000 cases, including over 23,700 deaths. (Photo by Go Nakamura.)

HOUSTON, TX - NOVEMBER 26: Dr Joseph Varon hugs and comforts a patient suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) at the United Memorial Medical Center on November 26, 2020 in Houston, Texas. According to reports, Texas has reached over 1,220,000 cases, including over 21,500 deaths. (Photo by Go Nakamura.)