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FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, file photo, people wearing face masks sits on a bench in Milan, Italy. Health officials say passengers who flew on a jet with a Georgia man who later tested positive for the COVID-19 virus were never screened based on guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At a Tuesday, March 3, 2020, news briefing, local health officials said the 56-year-old Fulton County man had traveled to Atlanta from Milan, Italy, on Feb. 22 and didn’t show symptoms of the disease until a few days after his flight. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, file photo, people wearing face masks sits on a bench in Milan, Italy. Health officials say passengers who flew on a jet with a Georgia man who later tested positive for the COVID-19 virus were never screened based on guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At a Tuesday, March 3, 2020, news briefing, local health officials said the 56-year-old Fulton County man had traveled to Atlanta from Milan, Italy, on Feb. 22…

March 3, 2020

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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.