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As well as suspending all climbing permits Nepal also stopped issuing tourist visas on arrival (AFP/File / Sarah LAI)
Empty shelves for toilet paper and sanitizer at a local Walmart in Dallas, Texas, USA, 13 March 2020. Photo: EPA
A Filipino soldier uses a thermal scanner to check the temperature of motorists entering the metropolis at a checkpoint on SLEX entry point of San Pedro City, Philippines, 16 March 2020. Photo: EPA
Bangkok's famed nightlife -- -including the Soi Cowboy district pictured in 2016 -- could suffer a massive blow under Thailand's measures to halt the new coronavirus (AFP Photo/ROBERTO SCHMIDT)
Bangkok's famed nightlife -- -including the Soi Cowboy district pictured in 2016 -- could suffer a massive blow under Thailand's measures to halt the new coronavirus (AFP Photo/ROBERTO SCHMIDT)
Wall Street Journal reporters Josh Chin (right) and Philip Wen walk through Beijing Capital Airport as they are expelled in February 2020 over a controversial headline in an op-ed in the newspaper (AFP PHOTO/File / GREG BAKER)
A border officer takes a woman's temperature at a customs checkpoint in Sungai Kolok in southern Thailand on the border with Malaysia on March 15 (AFP Photo/Madaree TOHLALA)
Visitors wearing masks take photos near the Olympic rings in Tokyo, Japan, 06 March 2020. Photo: EPA
People wearing masks walk near the China Central Television (CCTV) building in the central business district (CBD) in Beijing, China, 14 March 2020. Photo: EPA
A woman wearing a mask walks past a road blockade made mostly of shared bicycles on a street in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China. Photo: EPA

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