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Is that the new way of drinking coffee in one of the most beautiful cities in the world?
Let's try it this way, decided the owners of Cafe Du Soleil in Manhattan, and put up bubble tents for their customers to remind them: The weather is great, people are pushing it out, but this place is still one of those who hardest hit by the pandemic.
Keep distance.
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2/17
And there is coffee again in Madrid, like here in a bar in Vallecas, a poorer district of the city that has been partially cordoned off.
In view of the rapidly increasing number of corona infections in the Spanish capital, Regional President Diaz Ayuso has warned against a lockdown of the entire region.
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3/17
Time is running as if nothing had happened, day and night now work differently than before in Spain - the only EU member state that has been fully declared a risk area by the German government.
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4/17
Just melancholy, for months, that doesn't work, Mary Resendez must have thought when she opened a mobile beauty salon in the Mexican state of Tijuana in the middle of the corona crisis.
Inside, on the bus: extensive disinfection.
The shoes too.
But after that: finally talk about something completely banal again, your own look.
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5/17
There is also relaxation in Hong Kong, in between.
After bathhouses and amusement parks were allowed to reopen on September 18, people are returning to these places.
With face mask.
With a plastic disk in front of the face.
But there is someone again.
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6/17
Having fun is okay in Hamburg, too, it just feels a little different than it used to be.
This is the Reeperbahn Festival.
And celebrating now goes like this: stand in spray-painted squares, do not come closer.
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7/17
"Testing" is a word that you hear all the time.
Because it's being done everywhere and more and more to identify people with Covid-19, like here in Toronto.
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8/17
And "wait", you hear or read that often.
Wait here, please.
You are called, wait.
Stop at the marker, please.
These people in France have to queue up to get tested.
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9/17
Similar picture, different place, the same waiting.
Here in Illinois, people are lining up to vote in the early voting for the US presidential election.
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10/17
Somehow it has to start again - and that's why it looks like this in the Indonesian city of Surabaya when the exams are due in schools.
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11/17
Similar rules apply at a grammar school in Marktoberdorf, Bavaria: wear a mask, keep your distance.
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And these are students receiving their testimony from the Zion School in Bogota, Colombia.
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Test, fear, test, wait ... and play?
Some kindergartens are to be reopened in Bogota.
The teachers then wear protective suits and face masks, as here, and the children also have to cover their mouth and nose.
But you can play somehow.
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They want more money and more recognition for what they are doing: young interns in Barcelona during a demonstration for better working conditions.
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Meanwhile, and with much less distance, this demo in Marseille in the south of France is about the restaurant and bar industry.
Local owners are protesting against an order from the French government that all public restaurants and pubs should be closed in order to combat the second wave of corona.
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In the meantime, researchers in Hanover are investigating whether dogs are able to recognize corona-positive people with their sense of smell.
Here, at the Veterinary University, Beagle Djaka is sniffing a sample.
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17/17
At Disneyland in Tokyo, they are preparing for the park to reopen.
At least these employees have already appeared in front of the restaurant "La taverne de Gaston".
Now all that's missing is visitors who fill this place with even more life.
Photo: FRANCK ROBICHON / EPA-EFE / Shutterstock