Deserted Streets and Public Places Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

God helps him who helps himself - a saying tells us, that's why the general public itself prefers to stay at home and avoid public places to prevent the spread of the disease.

Earlier, space technology development company Maxar released aerial photos of deserted pilgrimage sites, empty highways and squares, to show the devastating effect of the COVID-19 virus.

Returning from the skies to the earth, here are close-up views of popular tourist destinations and places of everyday visits from train stations to schools.

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An eerie emptiness enveloped the sacred Kaaba in Mecca's Grand Mosque, Islam's holiest site, where attendance at Friday prayers was hit by measures to protect against the deadly new coronavirus.

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A restaurant promoter waits for customers at the largely empty Chinatown as tourism takes a decline due to the coronavirus outbreak in Singapore February 21, 2020.

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The Colosseum is virtually deserted after a decree orders for the whole of Italy to be on lockdown in an unprecedented clampdown aimed at beating the coronavirus, in Rome, Italy, March 10, 2020.

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A picture taken on March 9, 2020 shows an empty classroom in a primary school in Son en Breugel in southern Netherlands as pupils had their classes suspended following the outbreak of the COVID-19.

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A shopper passes empty shelves usually stocked with toilet paper in a supermarket in Melbourne on March 5, 2020. COVID-19 coronavirus fears have triggered runs on several products, including hand sanitisers and face masks, with images of shoppers stacking trolleys with toilet rolls spreading on social media.

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A tourist sits on a sun lounger on an empty beach in Pattaya on March 7, 2020, as visitor numbers in the region have plunged due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus.

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An aerial photo shows unused tourist buses parked on a lot near Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok on March 8, 2020. Ranks of tourist buses idle under a burning sun while once-bustling theme parks lie empty -- from above, striking images reveal the hollowing out of Thai tourism due to fears of the new coronavirus.

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Soccer Football - Europa League - Round of 32 Second Leg - Inter Milan v Ludogorets - San Siro, Milan, Italy - February 27, 2020. The teams line up before the match in an empty stadium after fans were not allowed in over coronavirus fears.

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Professor Maurizio Casiraghi of the Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences of Milano Bicocca records a lesson on the evolution of genomes in an empty classroom in Milan, on March 5, 2020. Italy closed all schools and universities until March 15 to help combat the spread of the novel coronavirus crisis. The government decision was announced moments after health officials said the death toll from COVID-19 had jumped to 107 and the number of cases had passed 3,000.

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Empty ski lifts are seen at a ski resort in the Lombardy side of the Passo del Tonale, which lies between the Italian regions of Lombardy and Trentino, after it was closed due to strict government measures to try and contain a coronavirus outbreak, in this still image taken from video at Passo del Tonale, Italy, March 9, 2020.

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A customer walks past mostly empty shelves that normally hold toilet paper and paper towels at a Costco store in Teterboro, N.J., Monday, March 2, 2020.

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Spectators' seats are seen empty as sumo wrestlers hold a Dohyo ring entering ceremony at the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament which is taking place behind closed doors amid the spread of coronavirus, in Osaka, western Japan, March 8, 2020, in this photo taken by Kyodo.

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General view of St. Peter's Square after the Vatican reports its first case of coronavirus, at the Vatican, March 6, 2020.

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A pedestrian walks along an empty street in the old village of Haro, northern Spain, Monday, March 9, 2020. Health authorities in the Madrid region say that infections for the new coronavirus have more than doubled in the past 24 hours.