Baku, March 17, AZERTAC

Today, Azerbaijan is celebrating the Earth or Last Tuesday (Ilakhir Charshanba), one of the four festive Tuesdays before Novruz Holiday.

Teachers sort out textbooks and gifts for would-be first graders at a classroom of Pajang Elementary School in Suwon, south of Seoul, on March 17, 2020.

Members of a civic group shout slogans during a rally in front of the Independence Gate in Seoul on March 17, 2020, to stage a campaign against candidates ahead of the April 15 parliamentary polls

Passengers arriving from Paris undergo special entry procedures at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, on March 16, 2020.

Officials conducts a mock test of ballot counters at an election management commission in Seoul on March 16, 2020, just one month ahead of the parliamentary elections. (Yonhap)
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Foreign students leave after receiving boxes of aid goods at Keimyung University in COVID-19-hit Daegu, 302 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on March 16, 2020. (Yonhap)
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Citizens use a whole-body sterilizer set up at a subway station in Daegu, 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on March 16, 2020, amid the coronavirus crisis. (Yonhap)
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Metasequoia-lined Road, a famous boulevard in Damyang, South Jeolla Province, about 340 kilometers southwest of Seoul, is almost deserted amid the coronavirus outbreak, in this photo taken March 14

Residents gather clams at a beach in Taean, 150 kilometers southwest of Seoul, on March 15, 2020. (Yonhap)
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A flock of hooded cranes search for food at Cheonsu Bay in Hongseong, a town in South Korea's central province of South Chungcheong, on March 16, 2020.