Police around the world enforce coronavirus lockdowns

Highly contagious COVID-19 coronavirus has impacted on nations around the globe

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Police officers patrol with a megaphone instructing people to keep moving, trying to keep groups from forming in Greenwich Park, as the UK continues in lockdown to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, in London
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Police wearing face masks at a protest in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, against restrictions put in place to combat the cornavirus COVID-19 pandemic
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A Police officer speaks with a person wearing a protective face mask protesting against Britain's planned HS2 high-speed rail link at the entrance to the HS2 site at London Euston, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), London, Britain.
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A police officer raises a baton at a man who, according to police, had broken the social distancing rule, outside a wine shop during an extended nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Delhi, India
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A seller transports onions as local police officers patrol the food Market of Porta Palazzo in Turin on May 4, 2020, as Italy starts to ease its lockdown, during the country's lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 infection, caused by the novel coronavirus.
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An anti lockdown protester is detained by police officers in London, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), London, Britain.
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Police officers stand watch near the Union Square subway station during the coronavirus pandemic, in New York.
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Police officers detain a protester during a demonstration against the lockdown imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Berlin, Germany.
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Moroccan police officer mans a checkpoint during night curfew as a precaution against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country's capital Rabat.
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A demonstrator is detained by riot police during a May Day rally in Valparaiso, Chile.
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