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Commuters walk along a sidewalk as a poster celebrating the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is seen in foreground, Tuesday, March 3, 2020, in Tokyo. The Japanese government has indicated it sees the next couple of weeks as crucial to containing the spread of COVID-19, which began in China late last year. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Commuters walk along a sidewalk as a poster celebrating the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is seen in foreground, Tuesday, March 3, 2020, in Tokyo. The Japanese government has indicated it sees the next couple of weeks as crucial to containing the spread of COVID-19, which began in China late last year. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

March 3, 2020

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Virus crisis ebbs in China, spreads fear across the West
March 3, 2020 6:14 p.m.

Virus crisis ebbs in China, spreads fear across the West

PARIS (AP) — The coronavirus epidemic shifted increasingly westward toward the Middle East, Europe and the United States on Tuesday, with governments taking emergency steps to ease shortages of masks and other supplies for front-line doctors and nurses.