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Our world in photos: April 9

April 9, 2020 Noah Singer

NEW YORK — Going up: Volunteers raised a tent while building a field hospital at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Wednesday in New York City. Volunteers placed 56 beds in five chapels and raised one of several tents in the nave. Photo: Mary Altaffer/AP

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RUSSIA — Careful fix: A worker fixed paving stones at the emptied Red Square, with St. Basil’s Cathedral, center, and the Kremlin’s Spasskaya Tower, right, in the background, in Moscow on Wednesday. Photo: Pavel Golovkin/AP

ISRAEL — Upside down: An Israeli man stood on his hands in an empty road in Tel Aviv on Wednesday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Monday a nationwide lockdown over the Passover holiday to control the country’s virus outbreak. Photo: Oded Balilty/AP

CUBA — Family drive: A family rode their tractor through the countryside while wearing masks as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus in Havana on Wednesday. Cuban authorities have required the use of masks outside of homes. Photo: Ramon Espinosa/AP

SPAIN — Sprayed clean: Anxela Iglesias disinfected masks in Madrid on Wednesday. A network of local volunteers is preparing makeshift masks to distribute among city medical staff and community groups. Photo: Bernat Armangue/AP

GUATEMALA — Heavy load: Soldiers carried boxes containing food to deliver to the poor at the Santa Rosita neighborhood on the outskirts of Guatemala City on Monday, during a stay-at-home curfew designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Photo: Moises Castillo/AP

ITALY — Day’s end: A doctor disinfected his shoes as he left the ICU unit of Rome’s San Filippo Neri Hospital in Rome on Thursday.
Photo: Andrew Medichini/AP

PARAGUAY — Roadside exam: A nurse from the Ministry of Public Health took a sample from a person on a motorcycle at a coronavirus mobile testing site in Asuncion on Wednesday. Photo: Jorge Saenz/AP

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