In the desperate fight against the novel coronavirus, social media platforms have achieved an important victory: they have helped limit…
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March 27
Times Square stands mostly empty as as much of the city is void of cars and pedestrians over fears of spreading the coronavirus on March 22, 2020 in New York City. (Getty)
Lebanese men wearing protective masks smoke water pipe or nargileh in Beirut on March 12, 2020. (Getty)
The Giza pyramids necropolis on the southwestern outskirts of the Egyptian capital Cairo is pictured empty on March 25, 2020. (Getty)
Syrians protest and burn tyres in an attempt to block traffic on the M4 highway, which links the northern Syrian provinces of Aleppo and Latakia, before incoming joint Turkish and Russian military patrols (as per an earlier agreed upon ceasefire deal) in the village of al-Nayrab, about 14 kilometres southeast of the city of Idlib and seven kilometres west of Saraqib in northwestern Syria on March 15, 2020. (Getty)
Fishermen try to catch fishes during the final of the revived Argungu fishing and cultural festival at Argungu Town, Kebbi State in northwest Nigeria, on March 14, 2020. (Getty)
Zaida Elena chains up beach chairs from her rental business in El Condado tourist zone in San Juan, Puerto Rico on March 18, 2020. (Getty)
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A too weak ceasefire?
