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A restaurant prepares delivery meal orders during lockdown due to the continuing spread of the coronavirus in Melbourne, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020. Victoria state, Australia's coronavirus hot spot, announced on Monday that businesses will be closed and scaled down in a bid to curb the spread of the virus. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill)
Passengers wear the mandatory face mask due to the coronavirus pandemic at a shopping center in Essen, Germany, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2019 file photo, Pope Francis walks towards a newly-planted oak tree during a tree-planting ceremony on the occasion of the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of ecology, at the Vatican. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how the Earth can recover if we allow it to rest and must spur people to adopt simpler lifestyles to help the planet, which is groaning, under the constant demand for economic growth, Pope Francis said on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020, in his latest, urgent appeal to help a fragile environment. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)
Single desks are spaced out in a classroom after being delivered in view of the reopening of the school year, at the Augusto High School, in Rome, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. Schools in Italy are scheduled to reopen Sept. 14 after over 5 months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini
Passengers sit on a bus at the terminal for long-distance travel in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. Airports, land transport, restaurants, and gyms are reopening in most of Colombia this week, as the South American nation attempts to reignite its economy following months of restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gestures during a news conference at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine and Heart Institute Monday, Aug. 31, 2020, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
FILE- In this July 17, 2020, file photo, Frances Reaves, in car, pays a visit to her friend Margaret Choinacki, foreground, 87, who has no other family members left because her husband and daughter have died, at Miami Jewish Health in Miami. Floridians will soon be allowed to visit loved ones in nursing homes after nearly six months of vulnerable seniors being cut off from family as Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020, that facilities could start a partial reopening. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
FILE - In this July 17, 2020, file photo, Margaret Choinacki, 87, who has no other family members left because her husband and daughter have died, blows kisses to her friend Frances Reaves during a drive-by visit at Miami Jewish Health in Miami. Floridians will soon be allowed to visit loved ones in nursing homes after nearly six months of vulnerable seniors being cut off from family as Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020, that facilities could start a partial reopening. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
Dr. Scott Atlas, right, President Donald Trump's new pandemic advisor, gestures as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis looks on during a news conference at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine and Heart Institute Monday, Aug. 31, 2020, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro adjusts his mask during a ceremony about the extension of emergency aid to help the poor population affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, at the Planalto Presidential Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
President Donald Trump, listens as Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn, left, speaks during a media briefing in the James Brady Briefing Room of the White House, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020, in Washington.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
A Wonder Woman medic wearing a face mask with the colors of the Italian flag is painted on a wall in Codogno, the northern Italian town that recorded Italy's first locally spread coronavirus infection, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Karl Ritter)
Committee Chairman Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., points to a chart during a House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee, on the Trump administrations response the the Coronavirus crisis, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP)
FILE - In this July 31, 2020 file photo, Adm. Brett Giroir, U.S. assistant secretary for health, speaks during a House Select Subcommittee hearing on the coronavirus on Capitol Hill in Washington. Federal officials will begin shipping tens of millions of rapid coronavirus tests to state governors this month for use in reopening schools. Giroir, the Trump administrations top testing official, laid out plans Tuesday, Sept. 1 to distribute some of the 150 million tests ordered from test maker Abbott Laboratories. The federal purchase was first announced last week. (Erin Scott/Pool via AP, File)
FILE In this Aug. 19, 2020 file photo, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks to reporters after visiting New Bridges Elementary School to observe pandemic-related safety procedures, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. New York City is delaying the start of its school year by several days to give teachers more time to prepare to have students back in classrooms amid the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday, Sept. 1. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, FIle)

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A restaurant prepares delivery meal orders during lockdown due to the continuing spread of the coronavirus in Melbourne, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020. Victoria state, Australia's coronavirus hot spot, announced on Monday that businesses will be closed and scaled down in a bid to curb the spread of the virus. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill)