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Men buy face masks to help curb the spread of the COVID-19 in Caloocan city, Philippines on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has decided to ease a mild coronavirus lockdown in the capital and four outlying provinces to further reopen the country's battered economy despite having the most reported infections in Southeast Asia. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)A man wearing face mask walks past an advertising of a private clinic in Barcelona, Spain on Monday Aug. 31, 2020. Spain, with nearly 440,000 infections of the new virus since February, has become western Europe's hardest hit country by a new surging wave of fresh outbreaks. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)FILE - In this July 1, 2020 file photo, diners enjoy eating their meals outside at a restaurant in Montclair, N.J. Indoor dining in New Jersey will resume Friday, Sept. 4 with limited capacity, Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday, Aug. 31. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, FIle )FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2020, file photo Scott Atlas, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, speaks at a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington. Trump has announced that Dr. Scott Atlas, a frequent guest on Fox News channel, has joined the White House as a pandemic adviser.(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)Venezuelan doctors speak in one of their rooms before going out to check on asymptomatic COVID-19 patients quarantining at a hotel in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Aug 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)Victoria State Premier Daniel Andrews addresses the media during a press conference in Melbourne, Australia, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. Australia recorded its deadliest day of the pandemic as the government urged hot spot Victoria state to announce its plans to lift a lockdown on the country's second-largest city. (James Ross/AAP Image via AP)Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, left, tours the temporary air-inflated laboratory after a ceremony to welcome the arrival of the Mainland Chinese nucleic acid test support team at Sun Yat Sen Memorial Park Sports Centre in Hong Kong, Friday, Aug. 28, 2020. Hong Kong authorities are preparing for the start of controversial universal community testing program to detect as many cases of the coronavirus as possible. (Hong Kong Government Information Services via AP)FILE - In this July 31, 2020 file photo, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies during a House Subcommittee hearing on the Coronavirus crisis, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Kevin Dietsch/Pool via AP)A woman wearing a surgical face mask to protect against coronavirus, sits outside a hardware shop in Johannesburg, South Africa, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)A Palestinian woman walks on a road next to barriers during a lockdown imposed following the discovery of a rise in coronavirus cases in Gaza City, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends a session during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, said the global tourism industry has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic, with $320 billion lost in exports in the first five months of the year and more than 120 million jobs at risk. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)A procession of vehicles drive past photos of Detroit victims of COVID-19, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020 on Belle Isle in Detroit. Families have a chance to take one last public look at their lost loved ones in the nation's first citywide memorial to honor victims of the pandemic. Mourners will join 14 consecutive funeral processions to drive past nearly 900 large poster-sized photos of their loved ones staked around the island. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)A 'Eat out to help out' sign stands outside a pub in the area of Notting Hill, in London, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. Today is the last day of the 'Eat out to help out' scheme, the UK Government's initiative to support restaurants, cafs, bars and pubs. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. The European Commission president said Thursday her team could face a reshuffle after the resignation of the Irish trade Commissioner, Phil Hogan, over a controversy involving his questionable adherence to COVID-19 rules. (Francois Walschaerts, Pool Via AP)
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Men buy face masks to help curb the spread of the COVID-19 in Caloocan city, Philippines on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has decided to ease a mild coronavirus lockdown in the capital and four outlying provinces to further reopen the country's battered economy despite having the most reported infections in Southeast Asia. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)