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Police officers, wearing protective masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, backdropped by the Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia, patrol the historic Sultanahmet district of Istanbul, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. Turkey has become one of the worst-hit countries in the world, with the number of confirmed cases hovering around 30,000 per day.The country has imposed evening curfews and lockdowns at weekends to try and combat the surge without impacting the economy but medical groups and opposition parties say the measures will fail to curb the spread. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
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