Eight months after the novel coronavirus burst out of Wuhan, China, it has created unprecedented economic and social disruption, with economies cratering across the globe and more destruction to come. Tens of millions have lost their jobs, and millions more have seen their life savings disappear as governments forced restaurants, bars and other small businesses to shut their doors.
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A picture taken during a guided tour organised by the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah shows a nurse checking the temperature of a woman inside a pre-examination tent designated for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients outside a hospital in Beirut's southern suburb, on March 31, 2020.
