Photos: How we’re adapting to pandemic life

From haircuts to elevators, our world re-engineered by the coronavirus outbreak

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People participate in an outdoor yoga class in a dome to facilitate social distancing, in Toronto, Canada.
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People practice social distancing inside an elevator prior to arriving to their workplaces at World Trade Center, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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Nathalie interacts with her husband Joseph behind a transparent plastic sheet inside a bubble room installed to visit residents in the garden of the Fondation Shadet Vercoustre retirement home near Dunkirk, France.
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Students wearing protective shields appear in IIT entrance examination, in Ahmedabad, India.
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A man receives a coffee in a cart pulled by a rope as a transportation system at a cafe in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Students wearing protective masks talk while practicing social distancing at the courtyard of a secondary school in Brussels, Belgium.
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Members of there Kansas State University marching band socially distance as they play before an NCAA college football game between Kansas State and Texas Tech in Manhattan, Kan.
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People are seen at the Atjeh Connection restaurant with separations on the table in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Customers wait outside on social distancing markings at a prototype location of fast food giant McDonald's in Arnhem, Netherlands.
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Participants at an outdoor question and answer session with Democratic U.S. vice presidential nominee and Senator Kamala Harris sit in their prescribed social-distancing circles during one of her campaign events in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.
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Tables and chairs are taped up to keep social distancing at a Starbucks coffee shop in Hong Kong.
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Spectators in their cars look at lucha libre wrestler Octagon Jr as he takes part in the first drive-in wrestling event, amid the coronavirus pandemic in Mexico City, Mexico.
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People stand on social-distancing markers at a Mercedes car dealer in Brussels, Belgium.
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A woman sits outside Cafe Du Soleil under bubble tents following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S.
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A woman is seen at a care facility for elderly people with dementia, in a glass house that is made for visits in Wassenaar, Netherlands.
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Keith Huerta, 30, cuts the hair of Nick Parr, 25, on the street outside Active Barbers in Santa Monica, California.
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Teddy bears sit at tables to maintain social distancing measures at Jaso Bakery restaurant in Mexico City.
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Palestinian groom Tariq Zaanin, walks with his bride on their wedding day amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in the northern Gaza Strip.
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A bank teller wearing a protective face mask stands at a counter where a plastic curtain is installed at the Higashinakano branch of MUFG Bank in Tokyo.
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Student attend their class at a primary school, in Lahore as Pakistani students head back to primary schools following their reopening, amid a steady decline in coronavirus deaths and infections.
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A member of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) checks the ID of a passenger through a glass shield at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport, in New Delhi.
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People eat inside private dining pods at a restaurant in London.
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Yellow stripe is painted in the middle of a pedestrian street to help people comply with social distance guidelines in Aalborg, Denmark.
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People stand on signs to respect social distancing on a platform for the tramway in Nice, France.
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Students sit behind old ballot boxes repurposed into partitions as they attend class in Pathum Thani province, Thailand.
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People are seen seated in outlined sections, created to promote social distancing as an attempt to fight the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), while viewing a screening as part of Movie Nights with Tribeca Film Festival at the Backyard at Hudson Yards in Manhattan, New York City.
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