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A man walks across a nearly empty Adams Street near The Art Institute of Chicago, Monday, March 23, 2020, in Chicago, on the first work day since Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker gave a shelter in place order last week. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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In global fight vs. virus, over 1.5 billion told: Stay home
March 23, 2020 11:45 p.m.

In global fight vs. virus, over 1.5 billion told: Stay home

NEW YORK (AP) — With masks, ventilators and political goodwill in desperately short supply, more than one-fifth of the world’s population was ordered or urged to stay in their homes Monday at the start of what could be a pivotal week in the battle to contain the coronavirus in the U.S. and Europe.