This photo depicts a man wearing a protective mask as he walks across a street in front of the Grand Lisboa Hotel in a residential district in Macau, China, on February 5, 2020. Everyone has probably heard about the outbreak of the corona virus in China; it has forced China to close their doors to the outside world as death tolls tops 900 and 40,000 cases are confirmed across the country. Although there are only two confirmed deaths from the new Coronavirus outside of mainland China — one in Hong Kong and one in the Philippines — there are more cases being reported around the world; the most recent cases were reported in Britain, Spain and Japan. In Japan they have quarantined a cruise ship with tests of the deadly virus coming back as positive, a grim truth to the people who are forced to remain on the ship. This photo is trying to warn the general public to be wary wherever they go as it has now been confirmed that the Coronavirus has killed more people than the SARS epidemic in 2002 and 2003. (SARS is another deadly virus that gives its victims a severe form of pneumonia.) The photo also wants to bring the virus to others attention and illustrate how dangerous it is as common people are forced to walk around with masks on their face in hopes that it is enough to protect them.
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