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The new screening drive-thru for COVID-19 at Zayed Sports City, Abu Dhabi. Chris Whiteoak / The National
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Sanitation workers from Tadweer on the first day of the UAE cleaning campaign. Victor Besa / The National
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A commuter enters the new sterilisation area at the entrance of the Abu Dhabi Central Bus Terminal.Victor Besa / The National
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A woman and her children seen during cloudy skies in Al Furjan area in Dubai. Pawan Singh / The National
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A man wearing a protective face mask crosses the foot bridge near Al Karama area in Dubai. Pawan Singh / The National
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A man seen during the evening in Al Furjan area in Dubai. Pawan Singh / The National
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A delivery driver wearing a face mask at downtown Abu Dhabi. Victor Besa / The National
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The view of the Burj Khalifa without any visitors in Downtown Dubai in Dubai. Pawan Singh / The National
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Boki Prekovic plays each afternoon from his balcony to keep residents stuck at home entertained. Chris Whiteoak / The National
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Two men on a boat wear face masks on Dubai Creek. Chris Whiteoak / The National
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A worker wearing a protective suit disinfects a globe in a public garden, in Algiers. Reuters
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Muslim worshippers circumambulate the sacred Kaaba in Makkah's Grand Mosque. Saudi Arabia extended curfew restrictions on Islam's two holiest cities. AFP
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Moroccan health workers scan passengers arriving from Italy on March 3. AFP
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A Jordanian police officer is seen at a checkpoint on March 25. Reuters
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A Jordanian health worker pictured on March 31. Reuters
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People travel on an overcrowded train on the outskirts of before a curfew ordered by the Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly on March 26. Reuters
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Palestinians gather at the beach as the sun sets over Gaza City on March 28. EPA
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A member of a medical team sprays disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus outbreak at a tuk-tuk three wheel motorcycle in Shobra district in Cairo, Egypt on April 3. EPA
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A Moroccan health ministry worker disinfects a man walking a dog in the capital Rabat on MArch 22. AFP
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In Algiers, Algeria, a woman seen in an empty bus station. Reuters
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A Tunisian Red Crescent member prepares food packages to be delivered to the elderly and needy families on March 31. EPA
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Workers disinfect desks and chairs in the Lebanese Parliament in central Beirut on March 10. AFP
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Travellers returning to Kuwait from Egypt, Syria and Lebanon arrive to be re-tested at a Kuwaiti health ministry containment and screening zone in Kuwait City on March 16. AFP
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A worker disinfects a house in a neighbourhood in the central Iraqi holy city of Najaf on March 23. AFP
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Doctors test a resident of Baghdad's suburb of Sadr City for the coronavirus on April 2. AFP
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Kuwaiti policemen wearing protective masks wait at Sheikh Saad Airport in Kuwait City,b efore transferring Kuwaitis arriving from Iran to a hospital to be tested for coronavirus on February 22. AFP
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Iranian sanitary workers disinfect Qom's Masumeh shrine on to prevent the spread of the coronavirus on February 25. AFP
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A view of beds at a shopping mall, one of Iran's largest, which has been turned into a centre to receive patients suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Tehran on April 4. Reuters
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A Lebanese employee wearing a protective mask looks at a bed in a ward at the Rafik Hariri University Hospital where the first coronavirus case was admitted on Feburary 22. AFP
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Medical staff in protective gears distribute information sheets to Iraqi passengers returning from Iran at Najaf International Airport on March 5. AFP
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Employees of the Fatih Municipality wearing protective suits disinfect the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul on MArch 13. AFP
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Sanitation workers from Tadweer spraying the pedestrian crossing on Hamdan and Fatima Bint Mubarak Street on March 27. Victor Besa / The National
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Colin and his wife Hilda run a marathon on their balcony on March 28 while the City of Dubai is under a Stay At Home policy to keep residence safe from the spread of Covid-19. Antonie Robertson / The National
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school buses parked outside Global Village on April 1. Chris Whiteoak / The National
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The new screening drive-thru for COVID-19 at Zayed Sports City, Abu Dhabi. Chris Whiteoak / The National
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Sanitation workers from Tadweer on the first day of the UAE cleaning campaign. Victor Besa / The National
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A commuter enters the new sterilisation area at the entrance of the Abu Dhabi Central Bus Terminal.Victor Besa / The National
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A woman and her children seen during cloudy skies in Al Furjan area in Dubai. Pawan Singh / The National
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A man wearing a protective face mask crosses the foot bridge near Al Karama area in Dubai. Pawan Singh / The National
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A man seen during the evening in Al Furjan area in Dubai. Pawan Singh / The National
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A delivery driver wearing a face mask at downtown Abu Dhabi. Victor Besa / The National
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The view of the Burj Khalifa without any visitors in Downtown Dubai in Dubai. Pawan Singh / The National
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Boki Prekovic plays each afternoon from his balcony to keep residents stuck at home entertained. Chris Whiteoak / The National
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Two men on a boat wear face masks on Dubai Creek. Chris Whiteoak / The National
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A worker wearing a protective suit disinfects a globe in a public garden, in Algiers. Reuters
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Muslim worshippers circumambulate the sacred Kaaba in Makkah's Grand Mosque. Saudi Arabia extended curfew restrictions on Islam's two holiest cities. AFP
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Moroccan health workers scan passengers arriving from Italy on March 3. AFP
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A Jordanian police officer is seen at a checkpoint on March 25. Reuters
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A Jordanian health worker pictured on March 31. Reuters
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People travel on an overcrowded train on the outskirts of before a curfew ordered by the Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly on March 26. Reuters
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Palestinians gather at the beach as the sun sets over Gaza City on March 28. EPA
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A member of a medical team sprays disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus outbreak at a tuk-tuk three wheel motorcycle in Shobra district in Cairo, Egypt on April 3. EPA
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A Moroccan health ministry worker disinfects a man walking a dog in the capital Rabat on MArch 22. AFP
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In Algiers, Algeria, a woman seen in an empty bus station. Reuters
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A Tunisian Red Crescent member prepares food packages to be delivered to the elderly and needy families on March 31. EPA
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Workers disinfect desks and chairs in the Lebanese Parliament in central Beirut on March 10. AFP
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Travellers returning to Kuwait from Egypt, Syria and Lebanon arrive to be re-tested at a Kuwaiti health ministry containment and screening zone in Kuwait City on March 16. AFP
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A worker disinfects a house in a neighbourhood in the central Iraqi holy city of Najaf on March 23. AFP
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Doctors test a resident of Baghdad's suburb of Sadr City for the coronavirus on April 2. AFP
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Kuwaiti policemen wearing protective masks wait at Sheikh Saad Airport in Kuwait City,b efore transferring Kuwaitis arriving from Iran to a hospital to be tested for coronavirus on February 22. AFP
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Iranian sanitary workers disinfect Qom's Masumeh shrine on to prevent the spread of the coronavirus on February 25. AFP
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A view of beds at a shopping mall, one of Iran's largest, which has been turned into a centre to receive patients suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Tehran on April 4. Reuters
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A Lebanese employee wearing a protective mask looks at a bed in a ward at the Rafik Hariri University Hospital where the first coronavirus case was admitted on Feburary 22. AFP
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Medical staff in protective gears distribute information sheets to Iraqi passengers returning from Iran at Najaf International Airport on March 5. AFP
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Employees of the Fatih Municipality wearing protective suits disinfect the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul on MArch 13. AFP
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Sanitation workers from Tadweer spraying the pedestrian crossing on Hamdan and Fatima Bint Mubarak Street on March 27. Victor Besa / The National
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Colin and his wife Hilda run a marathon on their balcony on March 28 while the City of Dubai is under a Stay At Home policy to keep residence safe from the spread of Covid-19. Antonie Robertson / The National
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school buses parked outside Global Village on April 1. Chris Whiteoak / The National
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The new screening drive-thru for COVID-19 at Zayed Sports City, Abu Dhabi. Chris Whiteoak / The National
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