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A deserted Rambla de Catalunya street is pictured during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Barcelona, Spain, March 31, 2020.

Spain’s street vendors deliver food, medical supplies amid coronavirus crisis

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For over three weeks now, Barcelona’s union of African street vendors has been distributing food and other necessary items every day to hundreds of families in vulnerable situations — including fellow street vendors.

A doctor wears a protective mask as he walks outside Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York, April 1, 2020.

Will the US ever mimic Asia’s culture of ‘universal masking’?

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Passengers wear protective masks due to the coronavirus outbreak on a train in Bangkok, March 16, 2020.

Coronavirus fears in Asia create a black market for masks

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