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Liz Cahn, center, and her daughter Cara eat lunch at Meli-Melo Creperie, Juice Bar & Cafe, Wednesday, in Greenwich, Conn. The state began Phase 2 Wednesday, which includes allowing indoor seating at restaurants during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Health, personal freedom at issue as virus flares anew

by Terry Tang Associated Press, Ken Moritsugu Associated Press, and Lisa Marie Pane Associated PressJune 17, 2020

Participants gesture with five fingers, signifying the "Five demands - not one less" during a vigil for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre at Victoria Park in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, Thursday, June 4, 2020. China is tightening controls over dissidents while pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong and elsewhere try to mark the 31st anniversary of the crushing of the pro-democracy movement in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

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Hong Kong defies ban to mark Tiananmen anniversary

by Zen Soo Associated Press, and Ken Moritsugu Associated PressJune 4, 2020

Travelers Meredith Ponder, left, and Coleby Hanisch, both of Des Moines, Iowa, wear masks to remind them not to touch their faces as they ride a train at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Tuesday, March 3, 2020, in SeaTac, Wash. Six of the 18 Western Washington residents with the coronavirus have died as health officials rush to test more suspected cases and communities brace for spread of the disease. All confirmed cases of the virus in Washington are in Snohomish and King counties....

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Virus crisis ebbs in China, spreads fear across the West

by Lori Hinnant Associated Press, and Ken Moritsugu Associated PressMarch 3, 2020

Workers wearing protective gears spray disinfectant against the new coronavirus in front of a church in Daegu, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020. The mayor of the South Korean city of Daegu urged its 2.5 million people on Thursday to refrain from going outside as cases of the new virus spike. (Kim Jun-beom/Yonhap via AP)

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New threats arise in virus outbreak

by Ken Moritsugu Associated PressFebruary 20, 2020

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a worker cleans the floor of a temporary hospital with 1,100 beds converted from the Wuhan Sports Center in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020. Without enough facilities to handle the number of cases of viral infection, Wuhan has been building prefabricated hospitals and converting a gym and other large spaces to house patients and try to isolate them from others. (Xiao Yijiu/Xinhua via AP)

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Fall in new cases raises hope in virus outbreak in China

by Ken Moritsugu Associated PressFebruary 12, 2020

A man walks through a disinfectant spray in order to return home at a residential complex in northern China's Tianjin Municipality Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. China's daily death toll from a new virus topped 100 for the first time and pushed the total past 1,000 dead, authorities said Tuesday after leader Xi Jinping visited a health center to rally public morale amid little sign the contagion is abating. (Chinatopix Via AP) CHINA OUT

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China’s new virus cases fall again

by Ken Moritsugu Associated PressFebruary 12, 2020

The cruise ship Diamond Princess is docked at Yokohama Port, near Tokyo, Friday, Feb. 7, 2020. Japan on Friday reported 41 new cases of a virus on the cruise ship that's been quarantined. About 3,700 people have been confined aboard the ship. (Sadayuki Goto/Kyodo News via AP)

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Japan finds 41 more coronavirus cases on ship; doc who first raised alarm dies

by Ken Moritsugu Associated Press, and Mari Yamaguchi Associated PressFebruary 7, 2020

The Huoshenshan temporary field hospital under construction is seen as it nears completion in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020. The Philippines on Sunday reported the first death from a new virus outside of China, where authorities delayed the opening of schools in the worst-hit province and tightened quarantine measures in a city that allow only one family member to venture out to buy supplies. (Chinatopix via AP)

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Virus cases top 20,000 as Hong Kong closes borders

by Ken Moritsugu Associated PressFebruary 3, 2020

A girl wears a face mask as she play on a swing near the Yingwuzhou Yangtze River Bridge in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020. Countries began evacuating their citizens Wednesday from the Chinese city hardest-hit by a new virus that has now infected more people in China than were sickened in the country by SARS. (AP Photo/Arek Rataj)

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Virus’ spread worries officials

by Ken Moritsugu Associated PressJanuary 30, 2020

Workers spray disinfectant at a train station in Wuhan in southern China's Hubei province, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020. Chinese health authorities urged people in the city of Wuhan to avoid crowds and public gatherings, after warning on Wednesday that a new viral illness that has infected hundreds and caused at least nine deaths could spread further. (Chinatopix via AP)

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Chinese city stops outbound flights, trains to fight virus

by Ken Moritsugu Associated PressJanuary 23, 2020