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.

A member of the Salvation Army puts a mask into a charity kettle unseasonably set up at Gwanghwamun Square in downtown Seoul on March 13, 2020.

A man walks past a magnolia plant in bloom along a street in the city of Jeju on South Korea's largest island of the same name on March 13, 2020. (Yonhap)
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Representatives of the Korea Federation of Banks pose at a flower market, in Goyang City, in this photo provided by the organization, on March 12, 2020.

A negative pressure isolation pod for moving COVID-19 patients is on standby at a hospital in Mungyeong, 180 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on March 12, 2020. (Yonhap)
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This photo, provided by the Baekdu Mount Range Arboretum in South Korea's eastern mountain town of Jeongseon on March 12, 2020, shows Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the Norwegian island of Spitsberg

A facial mask is affixed on a Statue of Peace, which symbolizes Korean victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery, in the southeastern city of Daegu, the epicenter of coronavirus in South Korea, on

A man wears a mask of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's face in Seoul on March 11, 2020, as members of a civic group host a rally to voice their objection to nuclear power.