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Photos: Face masks are becoming the new normal around the world

Mariachi players Aurelio Reyes and Sally Hawkridge, who are married, wear handmade face masks as they play at El Mariachi Plaza in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles on Wednesday, April 1, 2020. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has recommended that the city's 4 million people wear masks when going outside amid the spreading coronavirus. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Andres jimenez, 69, a retired state worker who makes masks to sell in his neighborhood, ties a mask on a girl, as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, March 31, 2020. Cuban authorities are requiring the use of masks for anyone outside their homes. (AP Photo / Ramon Espinosa)

JoJo Houston wears a Washington Redskins face mask while helping Martha's Tabel distribute hundreds of free hot meals donated by the Clyde's Restaurant Group to people in need during the novel coronavirus pandemic, which has forced many people out of work and unable to reach healthy food, April 01, 2020 in Washington, DC. Martha's Table, a nonprofit organization that works to help underserved communities, is extending until April 24 its COVID-19 emergency response of financial and food support for people in need, including a weekly distribution of 6,570 bags of groceries at its public food sites in Southeast Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

A volunteer wearing a face shield and mask manages a counter of COVID-19 infection screening center at the Chulalongkorn University health service center in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, April 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe

DressCode owner Andrea Vernaglia shows a face mask produced in his garment supplier in the outskirts of Rome, Tuesday, March 31, 2020. After all clients withdrew into quarantine, DressCode re-imagined production making almost 1000 masks a day. Their face masks are not a medical-grade Covid-19 bur are meant as accessories for social distancing. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) .

Lawn ornaments are outfitted with mock surgical face masks on the yard of a home, Wednesday, April 1, 2020, in Owensboro, Ky. (Greg Eans/The Messenger-Inquirer via AP)

A face mask hangs off the belt of a Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper while working at George Bush Intercontinental Airport Tuesday, March 31, 2020, in Houston. State troopers meet airline passengers from ordered quarantine cities as their flights arrive at the airport. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott expanded his travel restrictions on Monday to visitors from three states and four major U.S. cities in an effort to keep the coronavirus pandemic from spreading across Texas. Abbott had previously ordered quarantine for all people traveling from the New York City area, where the virus has hit the hardest, and in New Orleans, where deaths have spiked. In an executive order signed by Abbott, air travelers arriving in Texas from California, Louisiana, Washington, Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago and Miami are under a 14-day quarantine under the supervision of the state's Department of Public Safety. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Abubacar, originally from Mali, pauses with his homemade face masks in the Harlem neighborhood as fears increasingly grow over the coronavirus pandemic on March 31, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Buddhist monks wear face shields amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 as they collect alms on April 1, 2020, in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand has more than 1,500 confirmed COVID-19 cases and has entered a state of emergency in order to take stronger measures against the spread of the virus. (Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images)

A Pat's Farms grocery store worker wears a mask and plastic visor on March 31, 2020 in Merrick, New York. The World Health Organization declared coronavirus (COVID-19) a global pandemic on March 11. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)

A woman wearing a mask as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus walks down the street in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, March 31, 2020. Cuban authorities are requiring the use of masks for anyone outside their homes. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A shopper puts on a protective mask on April 01 in Vienna, Austria. Starting today the Austrian Government requires supermarket shoppers to wear protective face masks to help prevent the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). The supermarkets are to provide the maks to their customers, although at this point there are not enough masks available for all supermarkets and shoppers. (Thomas Kronsteiner/Getty Images)

A kid wearing a protective mask stands in a shopping district on April 01, 2020 in Wuhan, Hubei, China. The government stipulates that residents with green health code can go out. The central Chinese city where the coronavirus (COVID-19) first emerged last year, will lift the lockdown on April 8, local media reported. (Photo by Getty Images)

First Church of the Nazarene staff member Keri Kardatzke has this Bible verse, 2 Timothy 4:17, on her protective mask as she, and other staff members of the Anderson, Ind. church, handed out bags of essential household items to the public Wednesday, April 2, 2020. (John P. Cleary/The Herald Bulletin via AP)

A woman wearing a protective face mask and disposable gloves walks past a mural in Soacha, on the outskirts of Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, April 1, 2020, during a countrywide lockdown as it seeks to prevent the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

A passenger wearing a mask heads to the south security checkpoint at Denver International Airport as a statewide stay-at-home order remains in effect in an effort to reduce the spread of the new coronavirus Wednesday, April 1, 2020, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

A pedestrian wearing a mask is seen during morning commuting hours in the Financial District as Toronto copes with a shutdown due to the Coronavirus, on April 1, 2020 in Toronto, Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the government would spend $2 billion on testing and to buy critical supplies including ventilators and personal protective equipment. (Photo by Cole Burston/Getty Images)

A pharmacist works while wearing personal protective equipment in the Elmhurst neighborhood on April 1, 2020 in New York City. With more than 75,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than 1,000 deaths, New York City has become the epicenter of the outbreak in the United States. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

The Mary Tyler Moore statue on Nicollet Mall got a mask and rubber glove, perhaps for levity in the face of the Coronavirus, and seen Wednesday, April 1, 2020, in downtown Minneapolis. (David Joles/Star Tribune via AP)

In this March 20, 2020, file photo, customers wear protective masks while shopping for groceries in the Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has recommended that the city's 4 million people wear masks when going outside amid the spreading coronavirus. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)