COVID-19: Finding digital connections despite physical distance

People turn to the internet to stay connected during the coronavirus pandemic

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Christian Borbon, Senior Web Editor
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Children make cookies following the instructions of their grandparents via Facebook's Messenger video-chat in an iPad during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in El Masnou, north of Barcelona, Spain.
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A ballet teacher attends a virtual strengthening exercises live class for ballerinas which will be released on Youtube during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at Fernanda Bianchini Association of Ballet and Arts for the disabled and blind in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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A student takes classes online with his companions using the Zoom APP at home during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in El Masnou, north of Barcelona, Spain.
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Family members are seen on a computer screen showing video conference as the bride Ugi Lestari Widya Bahri prays in the backround, during a wedding ceremony which streamed online amid the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Tangerang, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Yoga teacher Rebecca Pacheco, author of "Do Your Om Thing," waves goodbye after leading an online yoga class attended by people around the world from her home amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
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A physiotherapist holds a smartphone while attending a virtual strengthening exercises live class for ballerinas during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at Fernanda Bianchini Association of Ballet and Arts for the disabled and blind in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Daniel Niederegger (C) and his sister Georgia talk to their grandparents online as they celebrate his seventh birthday in quarantine with his family amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Hawkesbury, Ontario, Canada.
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A student takes class online while using the Zoom app at her home as Egypt shut down schools to as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Cairo, Egypt.
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A mobile phone is used to transmit online Way of the Cross celebrations on Good Friday, due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Poland, at Catholic church in Gora Kalwaria, Poland.
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Sisters Sylvia (R), Stephanie Falcomer (L) and grandson Peter Henry hold a 'socially distant' 94th birthday party in their driveway for their mother and grandmother Marcella Falcomer, who came to America from Italy in 1955, as they say hello to their relatives on a Zoom video conference call during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in West Nyack, New York, U.S.
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