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More than 63 million people in India may have contracted Covid-19, health authorities said on Tuesday – about 10 times higher than the official reported figures.
A national survey of more than 29,000 people across 700 villages and wards found that about one in 15 people above the age of 10 had antibodies against the coronavirus, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research. The survey was conducted from mid-August to mid-September.
Antibody tests, also known as serology tests, check for proteins called antibodies in the immune system, which indicate if someone has been exposed to the virus.
Of the country’s 1.3 billion citizens, more than 966 million are aged 10 or above, according to the government’s most recent census in 2011. If one in 15 people of this group have been infected with Covid-19, that’s a total of 63.78 million people.
As of Wednesday, India has reported more than 6.1 million cases and 96,000 deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
The survey suggests that for every one infection officially reported, there are actually 26 to 32 people infected who slip through the cracks, said Dr. Balram Bhargava, director of the medical council, at a news conference on Tuesday.
This falls in line with what many experts have warned for months – that India’s coronavirus crisis may be much more dire than official figures suggest.
There are numerous reasons for this: People simply aren’t getting tested enough. There are sometimes errors in reporting and registering cases. Changing government strategies can muddle the numbers and paint a misleading picture of the situation.
The government began rolling back restrictions in May after a months-long lockdown, with ministers turning their attention to reopening the economy and public services. But experts, including Bhargava, warn that it’s too soon to relax.
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A health worker tests a child for Covid-19 at a school in New Delhi on July 27.
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Portraits are taped onto seats to help theatergoers spread out in Nicosia, Cyprus, on July 27.
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The casket of a coronavirus victim is carried from a funeral home in Johannesburg on July 26.
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Worshippers of Legio Maria attend a prayer at their church in Nairobi, Kenya, on July 26. Places of worship have reopened in Kenya under strict guidelines.
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A casket containing the remains of a coronavirus victim waits to be removed from a mortuary in Soweto, South Africa, on July 24.
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Cardboard cutouts of fans are seen in Globe Life Field during a Major League Baseball game in Arlington, Texas, on July 24. The league has resumed for a 60-game abbreviated season, but fans are not allowed to attend.
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Commuters wear face masks and face shields while traveling on a public bus in Lima, Peru, on July 22. Peru has mandated masks and shields on public transportation.
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Undertakers push the casket of a coronavirus victim during a funeral in Soweto, South Africa, on July 21.
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Nurse Gabriel Leyva, second from left, treats a coronavirus patient in Edinburg, Texas, on July 20. Texas is among a string of Southern states grappling with rising coronavirus cases.
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A worker measures a man's temperature before allowing him to enter La Vega market in Santiago, Chile, on July 19.
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Indigenous nurses in Santarem, Brazil, administer a Covid-19 test on Chief Domingos from the Arapium tribe on July 19.
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A restaurant's outdoor seating area is closed in Miami Beach, Florida, on July 18. The city ordered a curfew for most of its entertainment district.
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People watch a video projection in Avignon, France, on July 18. Since the Avignon Theatre Festival has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, the festival's organization has been projecting plays that made its history.
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Guests arrive at Disney's Epcot park in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, on July 15. The park was reopening, as was Hollywood Studios, for the first time since March 15.
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Doctors from the Palestinian Ministry of Health take blood samples in Hebron, West Bank, on July 15.
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Health-care workers and union members demonstrate during a Bastille Day protest in Paris on July 14. France is giving health-care workers a raise for their efforts to fight the novel coronavirus.
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Health workers in Mumbai, India, screen residents for Covid-19 symptoms on July 14.
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Activist Thomas Kennedy is escorted away by security as he heckles Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis during a briefing in Miami on July 13. If Florida were a country, it would have ranked No. 9 in the number of Covid-19 cases worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins data that day.
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather for a July 13 protest over lockdown measures in Jerusalem.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson talks with a paramedic during his visit to the headquarters of the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust on July 13. Wearing face masks in shops and supermarkets in England will be compulsory from July 24. The United Kingdom is one of the countries worst hit by coronavirus. Its fatalities trail only Brazil and the United States.
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Members of the Bungoma County Isolation Team stand by the coffin of Dr. Doreen Lugaliki during her funeral in Ndalu, Kenya, on July 13. Lugaliki, 39, died from complications related to the novel coronavirus.
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People play volleyball in Hermosa Beach, California, on July 12. Los Angeles County beaches were reopened after being closed over the Fourth of July weekend. California is one of almost three dozen states in which cases were rising.
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The boxed cremated remains of Mexicans who died from Covid-19 are covered before a service at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York on July 11. The ashes were blessed before they were repatriated to Mexico.
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US President Donald Trump wears a face mask as he visits Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, on July 11. This was the first time since the pandemic began that the White House press corps got a glimpse of Trump with a face covering.
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In this handout photo provided by the Walt Disney World Resort, a worker welcomes guests to the Magic Kingdom Park in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, on July 11. The park's reopening came the same weekend that Florida reached a record high for single-day case count increase.
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Health-care workers walk through the Texas Medical Center during a shift change in Houston on July 8. Coronavirus cases have accelerated across much of the South and Southwest in recent weeks. Texas crossed the 200,000-case threshold on July 6 — just 17 days after it had reached 100,000 cases. Harris County, which encompasses Houston and is the most populous county in Texas, led the state in confirmed cases.
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Protesters clash with police in front of Serbia's National Assembly building in Belgrade on 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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Firefighters dressed in personal protective equipment prepare to distribute food at a public housing tower in North Melbourne, Australia, on July 7. Metropolitan Melbourne was placed under lockdown amid a resurgence of coronavirus cases.
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Cars line up in the Hard Rock Stadium parking lot so drivers could be tested in Miami Gardens, Florida, on July 6.
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Peruvian migrant Jose Collantes cries as he watches cemetery workers bury his wife, Silvia Cano, in Santiago, Chile, on July 3. She died of coronavirus complications, according to Collantes.
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US President Donald Trump speaks at the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, South Dakota, on July 3. Social distancing was not observed at the Independence Day celebration, where Trump claimed that 99% of coronavirus cases in America are "totally harmless."
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, wears a Washington Nationals mask June 30 as he arrives to testify at a Senate committee hearing about the coronavirus pandemic. Fauci issued a stark warning to lawmakers, telling them he wouldn't be surprised if the United States sees new cases of coronavirus rising to a level of 100,000 a day.
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A city council worker carries trash from a coronavirus testing center in Leicester, England, on June 29. Schools and stores in the city of Leicester were closing again, with some restrictions being reimposed because of its high infection rate.
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A woman walks along a road painted with circles to help people maintain social distancing in Mumbai, India, on June 29.
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A member of the bar staff at Murray's Pub serves a pint of Guinness in Dublin, Ireland, on June 29. People in Ireland are tentatively returning to shops, hair salons and restaurants as the country emerges from its coronavirus lockdown.
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Agustina Cañamero and Pascual Pérez kiss each other through a plastic screen at a nursing home in Barcelona, Spain, on June 22. They've been married for 59 years.
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Hugo, 3, has his temperature taken by a teacher as he arrives at kindergarten in Barcelona on June 26.
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A beach is slammed with people in Bournemouth, England, during a heat wave on June 25. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson began easing coronavirus restrictions in May, but people are still supposed to be distancing themselves from one another. After thousands flocked to beaches, officials in southern England declared a "major incident."
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Mannequins sit at the Elpaso Bar in Ankara, Turkey, to make customers observe social distancing on June 24. The bar reopened after being closed for weeks.
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A ceremonial soldier wears a face mask during Russia's Victory Day parade in Moscow on June 24. A major celebration was originally planned to take place in May, with world leaders invited to attend, but it was postponed by the Kremlin after veterans organizations voiced concerns about the health risks such an event might pose amid the coronavirus crisis.
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Health-care workers prepare to conduct Covid-19 testing in Mumbai, India, on June 23.
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Graves are seen at the General Cemetery in Santiago, Chile, on June 23. Chile is among the Latin American countries hardest hit by the coronavirus.
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Malia Pena and her mother, Lisa Torriente, wear masks as they visit the beach in Santa Monica, California, on June 23. California was among 25 states that had recorded higher rates of new cases compared to the previous week.
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People worship at the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque complex in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on June 23. Saudi Arabia has announced it will hold a "very limited" Hajj celebration this year.
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A man has his throat swabbed June 17 at a Covid-19 testing site for those who were potentially exposed to the coronavirus at a wholesale food market in Beijing. For 55 days, the Chinese capital had not reported any locally transmitted infections, but a fresh cluster of coronavirus cases emerged from a sprawling wholesale food market in the city, infecting more than 180 people as of June 19.
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People are spread out as former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee, speaks in Darby, Pennsylvania, on June 17.
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A firefighter in Chennai, India, sprays disinfectant to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus on June 11, 2020.
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The sun sets over a cemetery for coronavirus victims near Najaf, Iraq.
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A woman is sprayed with disinfectant before entering a shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia, on June 9, 2020.
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Teachers in Barcelona, Spain, try to prevent a hug between 6-year-olds Wendy Otin and Oumou Salam Niang as they meet on the first day of school following a lockdown.
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Isidre Correa, who is recovering from the coronavirus, is taken to the seaside in Barcelona, Spain, on June 3, 2020. Hospital del Mar has been taking patients to the seaside as part of the recovery process.
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Dealers wear masks just before the reopening of the D Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
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Government health workers test a resident on the Brazilian island of Marajo on June 1, 2020.
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Workers spray disinfectant inside a movie theater in Bangkok, Thailand, ahead of its reopening on May 31, 2020.
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People try out social-distancing "bumper tables" as the Fish Tales restaurant opened for in-person dining in Ocean City, Maryland, on May 29, 2020.
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People carry the coffin of a suspected coronavirus victim at the Nueva Esperanza cemetery, on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, on May 28, 2020.
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Shaandiin P. Parrish, Miss Navajo Nation, helps distribute food and other supplies to Navajo families in Counselor, New Mexico. Navajo Nation has been hit hard by the coronavirus.
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Commuters crowd a train station in Tokyo during the morning rush hour on May 26, 2020.
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Students take their spring exams at the Vallhall Sports Arena in Oslo, Norway, on May 26, 2020.
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Preschool students wait to wash their hands before class in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on May 25, 2020. The country became one of the first in West Africa to restart lessons after a two-month coronavirus shutdown.
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A security official stands guard at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing as delegates leave the second plenary session of the National People's Congress.
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Olivia Grant, right, hugs her grandmother, Mary Grace Sileo, through a plastic drop cloth that was hung up on a homemade clothesline in Wantagh, New York.
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Brian Carabine, a retired US Marine, replaces flags at the South End Cemetery in East Hampton, New York, just before Memorial Day in 2020.
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High school graduates turn their tassels during a drive-thru graduation ceremony at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
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This aerial photo shows gravediggers working at the Vila Formosa Cemetery, on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, on May 22, 2020. The coronavirus was surging in Brazil, the hardest-hit country in Latin America.
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Workers wear protective gear as they start a cremation oven in Ecatepec, Mexico.
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A health worker wears a face shield while checking a patient's temperature at a hospital in Toluca, Mexico, on May 21, 2020. Mexico had reported its highest number of new daily cases.
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People lower the coffin of a woman who died from the coronavirus in Srinagar, India.
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Cardboard cutouts of soccer fans are seen at the Borussia-Park stadium in Mönchengladbach, Germany. The Bundesliga, Germany's top pro soccer league, became the first major European competition to return amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Levi Tinker, resident historian and general manager of the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, makes an announcement inside the theater's empty auditorium on May 18, 2020. It was the theater's 93rd birthday celebration.
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People practice social distancing in New York's Domino Park on May 17, 2020.
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Nurses in Nairobi, Kenya, take part in a Zumba fitness class in the parking lot of the Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital.
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Kevin Harvick celebrates with a burnout after winning a NASCAR Cup Series race in Darlington, South Carolina, on May 17, 2020. It was NASCAR's first race since its season was halted because of the pandemic. No fans were in attendance.
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Angelino, a professional soccer player with the German club RB Leipzig, takes a corner kick during a Bundesliga match against Freiburg on May 16, 2020. The stadium was nearly empty, as no more than 322 people were able to attend each Bundesliga match until the end of the season.
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Mary Faye Cochran sings "You Are My Sunshine" to her son Stacey Smith from her senior-living facility in Smyrna, Georgia, on May 10, 2020. It was Mother's Day in the United States.
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Pope Francis delivers a blessing from the window of his studio overlooking an empty St. Peter's Square.
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The San Isidro cemetery in Mexico City, which was temporarily closed to the public to limit the spread of Covid-19, is seen in this aerial photo taken on May 10, 2020.
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Mary Washington speaks through a window to her daughter Courtney Crosby and grandchild Sydney Crosby during a Mother's Day celebration at her senior-living facility in Smyrna, Georgia.
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A Briarcliff High School student participates in a parade of graduating seniors through Briarcliff Manor, New York, on May 9, 2020.
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People wear face masks while watching a Victory Day military parade in Minsk, Belarus, on May 9, 2020. The parade marked the 75th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.
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A man rides past social-distancing markers in front of a shop in Brussels, Belgium.
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A man pauses as he places the casket of a relative into a van at a busy New York funeral home.
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Health-care workers wait for citizens to arrive at the Anna International Airport in Chennai, India. People were arriving in Chennai from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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A man wearing a face mask cycles through Chinatown in Yokohama, Japan, on May 8, 2020. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced that Japan would extend its state of emergency until the end of May.
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American citizens who were stranded in Syria due to the pandemic arrive at the Lebanese border on their way to the Beirut airport, where they would be leaving for the United States.
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During a protest in Washington, members of National Nurses United stand among empty shoes that they say represent nurses who have died from Covid-19.
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A worker helps disinfect a subway train in New York on May 6, 2020. The subway syatem was shut down for a deep-cleaning.
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High school students study in a classroom in Wuhan, China, as they returned to school on May 6, 2020.
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A nursery is disinfected in Cannes, France.
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Refrigerated trucks are seen at a morgue that opened in New York to assist overwhelmed funeral homes.
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Migrant workers in New Delhi walk toward the Sarai Kale Khan Bus Terminus after learning that the government was preparing to send migrant workers back to their home states during a lockdown. In March 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged all states to seal their borders to stop the coronavirus from being imported into rural areas.
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People exercise on a seafront promenade in Barcelona, Spain, on May 2, 2020. Spaniards filled the country's streets to work out for the first time after seven weeks of confinement in their homes.
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Michigan state police prevent protesters from entering the chamber of the Michigan House of Representatives on April 30, 2020. The protesters were unhappy with the state's stay-at-home order. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer recently extended the order through May 15, though restrictions were relaxed so some businesses could reopen.
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This aerial photo shows surfers accessing Sydney's Tamarama Beach on April 29, 2020. Several Sydney beaches reopened for exercise only.
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US Vice President Mike Pence visits Dennis Nelson, a patient who survived the coronavirus and was going to give blood, during a tour of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, on April 28, 2020. Pence chose not to wear a face mask during the tour despite the facility's policy that's been in place since April 13. Pence told reporters that he wasn't wearing a mask because he's often tested for coronavirus.
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A barber wears protective equipment as he cuts a customer's hair in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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After recovering from the coronavirus, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson returned to work on April 27, 2020.
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Health workers at a coronavirus testing center in New Delhi attend to a colleague who fainted due to exhaustion on April 27, 2020.
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Families walk along a boulevard in Barcelona, Spain, on April 26, 2020.
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A muezzin, the person at a mosque who calls Muslims to daily prayers, reads the Quran at a mosque in Gaza City after Ramadan began on April 24, 2020.
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Pitrik van der Lubbe waves from a boom lift to his 88-year-old father, Henk, at his father's nursing home in Gouda, Netherlands. Pitrik had not seen his father in more than four weeks.
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Protesters shout slogans against Lebanese Central Bank governor Riad Salamé as they block Hamra Street in Beirut, Lebanon, on April 23, 2020. Anti-government protesters were demonstrating in Beirut as they continued to endure one of the country's worst-ever economic crises.
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A boy plays hopscotch at his home in A Coruna, Spain.
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Omar Rodriguez organizes caskets at the Gerard Neufeld Funeral Home in New York. The funeral home in Queens was overwhelmed by the pandemic.
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A dentist wears protective equipment while treating a patient in Den Bosch, Netherlands.
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Biology teachers prepare to hold an exam at a secondary school in Berlin on April 22, 2020.
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A volunteer in Yangon, Myanmar, spreads calcium oxide on a road to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus on April 22, 2020.
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Migrants wave from balconies at a hotel in Kranidi, Greece, on April 21, 2020. The shelter, which hosts 470 asylum seekers, was placed in isolation after a pregnant resident tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
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A man disinfects a ceiling lamp at the Čobanija Mosque in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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A nurse holds a newborn baby, wearing a face shield as a protective measure, at a maternity facility in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Health workers at Madrid's La Paz Hospital hold a minute of silence to remember Joaquin Diaz, the hospital's chief of surgery who died because of the coronavirus.
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A woman applauds from the balcony of her Paris home to show support for health care workers on April 20, 2020.
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A health-care worker stands in a Denver street to counterprotest the hundreds of people who were demanding that stay-at-home orders be lifted.
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Mayor's office workers wear protective suits as they conduct a census in a Bogota, Colombia, neighborhood on April 19, 2020. They were trying to find out how many families needed to be provided with food.
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The class of 2020 tosses hats into the air at the Air Force Academy graduation in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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A woman sticks her tongue out of a torn mask at a Reopen Maryland rally outside the State House in Annapolis, Maryland, on April 18, 2020. Residents in multiple states were protesting stay-at-home orders.
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Newly married Tyler and Caryn Suiters embrace following their marriage ceremony in Arlington, Virginia, on April 18, 2020. The Rev. Andrew Merrow and his wife, Cameron, were the only other attendees at the ceremony, which was held at St. Mary's Episcopal Church.
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Abed Khankan cuts a customer's hair outdoors in Malmo, Sweden.
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Two women walk to rent a small paddle boat by the Vltava River in Prague, Czech Republic, on April 17, 2020.
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