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People wearing protective masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walk under cherry blossoms Friday, March 26, 2021, in Tokyo. The Japanese capital confirmed more than 370 new coronavirus cases on Friday. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Palmiro Tami, 82, holds hand with his wife Franca Persico as the have a walk through the garden of the Fondazione Martino Zanchi nursing home, after receiving the second shot of Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine, in Alzano Lombardo, northern Italy, Monday, March 22, 2021. Italy's nursing homes have been declared an initial success in an otherwise lagging vaccine campaign. At a nursing home near Bergamo, one 82-year-old resident received his second jab, and a surprise visit from his 77-year-old wife. Their last hug had been through plastic on his birthday, in February. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

COVID-19 patients stay outside the Amang Rodriguez Memorial Medical Center emergency area as they wait for rooms to be vacated in Marikina, Philippines on Friday March 26, 2021. The Department of Health reported over 9,800 new COVID-19 cases today, the highest number since the pandemic hit the country last year as it struggles to contain an alarming surge in coronavirus infections. Sign reads "COVID Hot Zone, Do Not Enter." (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Parishioners pray during Mass at Our Lady of Sorrows in the Queens borough of New York on Sunday, March 7, 2021. The Roman Catholic church reopened for in-person services in July 2020 and recently resumed in-person confessions. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

A man wearing a face mask sits by stacked chairs outside of a closed restaurant in central Nicosia, Cyprus, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. Cyprus will send all high school students back to their classrooms and open up gyms, pools, dance academies and art galleries next week in a further, incremental easing of the country's second nationwide COVID-19 lockdown. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

A child holds a balloon as she looks at amusement park workers holding a makeshift carousel as they join with circus workers in a demonstration demanding more support from the Italian government as their activities are shut down since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, in Rome's Piazza del Popolo, Friday, March 26, 2021,. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2021, file photo, several tents are set up so people who have registered can get their COVID-19 vaccinations as they drive-thru the parking lot of the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. Just over 1 million Arizonans are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, state officials announced Tuesday, March 16, 2021. That represents just under 14% of the state's estimated population of nearly 7.3 million, or about one of every seven Arizonans. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

People stand in line for last minute shopping outside an Ikea store in Brussels, Friday, March 26, 2021. New rules for non-essential shopping begin on Saturday in Belgium as the nation tries to reduce its fast-rising COVID-19 numbers. Beginning Saturday customers will need to book an appointment to be allowed inside all non-essential businesses. (AP Photo/Mark Carlson)

Janet St. Paul Studio for Hair and Beauty stylist Shannon Briggs-Hack styles Anna Morris's hair in downtown Austin on Wednesday, March 10, 2021. Texas is lifting a COVID-19 mask mandate that was imposed last summer but has only been lightly enforced. The new rule takes effect on March 10. (Ricardo B. Brazziell /Austin American-Statesman via AP)

A man rides his bicycle walks at the Old Town Square in Prague, Czech Republic, Monday, March 22, 2021. A group of activists painted the crosses to criticize the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Passengers wearing masks as a precaution against the coronavirus wait for transportation at a bus station in Jammu, India, Friday, March 26, 2021.(AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and children, some wearing face mask, burn leavened items in final preparation for the Passover holiday in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish town of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, March 26, 2021. Jews are forbidden to eat leavened foodstuffs during the Passover holiday that celebrates the biblical story of the Israelites' escape from slavery and exodus from Egypt. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)