An airline agent wears a protective mask while printing out boarding passes at an airport check-in at the Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport, in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, March 3, 2020. The health ministers of Argentina and Chile confirmed their respective country's first case of the coronavirus on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
March 3, 2020
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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.