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Mar 10, 2020

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A person walks at Torino Porta Susa railway station after a decree orders the whole of Italy to be on lockdown in an unprecedented clampdown aimed at beating the coronavirus, in Turin, Italy, March 10, 2020. Image: REUTERS/Massimo Pinca - RC23HF9M0PN9

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Soccer Football - Champions League - FC Barcelona announce that their round of 16 second leg match versus Napoli will be played behind closed doors - Camp Nou, Barcelona, Spain - March 10, 2020 Chinese student Gao Jia Xin wears a mask outside the Camp Nou after FC Barcelona announced that their round of 16 second leg match versus Napoli will be played behind closed doors while the number of coronavirus cases grow around the world REUTERS/Nacho Doce - RC22HF9J1VCR

To help control the virus, FC Barcelona announced that their round of 16 second leg match versus Napoli will be played behind closed doors. Image: REUTERS/Nacho Doce

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Alcohol can disinfect surfaces but it can't kill a virus that has entered your body. Image: WHO

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