Dr. Joseph Varon, right, leads a team as they try to save the life of a coronavirus patient Monday, July 6, at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston. "In the last three weeks, I have seen more admissions and sicker patients than on the previous 10 weeks," said Varon, the hospital's chief medical officer. "It's been an exponential increase on the severity of illness and on the number of cases that we admit." Many states, including Texas, have been seeing a rise in daily hospitalizations, and at least two dozen have paused or rolled back reopening plans.
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People pack a beach in San Diego on Saturday, July 4. Because of a surge in coronavirus cases, many other California beaches were shut down for the Fourth of July weekend.
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Schoolchildren wear special hats to help them practice social distancing in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on Friday, July 3.
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A man attends a Eucharist at the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Cathedral on Saturday, July 4. Only the United States has more confirmed coronavirus cases than Brazil, Latin America's hardest-hit country.
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A forensics team carries the body of Seoul, South Korea, Mayor Park Won-soon after he was found dead on a mountainside on Friday, July 10. Police did not reveal how the mayor died, in order to protect his privacy. But they have ruled out foul play. Park was 64 years old.
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Protesters clash with police in front of Serbia's National Assembly building in Belgrade on Wednesday, July 8. People were demonstrating against President Aleksandar Vucic after he announced a weekend-long curfew to try to combat a surge in coronavirus cases.
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US President Donald Trump sits in the Cabinet Room of the White House before holding a roundtable discussion Thursday, July 9, with administration officials and Hispanic American leaders. He lashed out after the Supreme Court ruled that he is not immune from a New York prosecutor's subpoena for his tax return.
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Portraits of health-care workers are pasted on the facade of the Opera Bastille in Paris on Wednesday, July 8.
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Artists and volunteers descended on a basketball court in a historically Black neighborhood of Annapolis, Maryland, to paint a 7,000-square-foot mural of Breonna Taylor over the Fourth of July weekend. The project was led by Annapolis-based Future History Now, a nonprofit art collective that creates murals with youth facing adversity in underserved communities. Taylor's death has become another flashpoint in national demonstrations over police brutality. She was killed in March by three Louisville, Kentucky, Metropolitan Police Department officers during the execution of a no-knock warrant.
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A man pours water over himself in London's Soho neighborhood on Saturday, July 4 — the day pubs, hotels and restaurants were allowed to reopen in the United Kingdom.
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A woman has her hair washed at a London salon just after midnight on Saturday, July 4. Salons had been closed for more than three months.
People in Chertsey, England, wear protective masks as they enjoy an amusement ride in Thorpe Park on Sunday, July 5.
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Nurse Damaris Silva plays the violin for coronavirus patients inside a Santiago, Chile, hospital on Thursday, July 2.
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Flamingos stand together at the Hellabrunn Zoo in Munich, Germany, on Wednesday, July 8.
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New York Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka lies on the mound after he was hit in the head by a teammate's line drive during a workout at Yankee Stadium on Saturday, July 4. He suffered a mild concussion, Yankees Manager Aaron Boone said.
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Actor Johnny Depp arrives at the High Court in London on Wednesday, July 8. Depp forcefully rejected allegations he was abusive toward his ex-wife, Amber Heard, describing them as "sick" on the first day of his libel action against a UK newspaper group.
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Bodies are placed in a mass grave on Saturday, July 4, after at least 162 people were killed in a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar. Others were injured or feared to be trapped.
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Jasper, an 8-month-old koala, is weighed at the Wild Life Sydney Zoo on Wednesday, July 8.
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A person watches "Hamilton" on a phone while sitting at an outdoor restaurant in New York City on Friday, July 3. The city recently started Phase Two of its reopening plan, which allows for outdoor dining and the opening of barbershops and salons.
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People are rescued after flooding in Jiujiang, China, on Wednesday, July 8.
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Visitors take photos of the "Mona Lisa" at the Louvre in Paris on Monday, July 6. The Louvre, the world's most popular museum, has reopened its doors after months of closure.
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US President Donald Trump arrives at Mount Rushmore for his Independence Day celebration in Keystone, South Dakota, on Friday, July 3.
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Drones show a message about social distancing as they fly over the Han River in Seoul, South Korea, on Saturday, July 4.
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People sit on the roofs of their cars while watching July Fourth fireworks in Los Alamitos, California. See last week in 30 photos