The Day in Photos
March 19, 2021
![People walk on the Louvre museum courtyard, in Paris, Friday, March 19, 2021. The French government backed off Thursday from ordering a tough lockdown for Paris and several other regions despite an increasingly alarming situation at hospitals with a rise](https://gdb.voanews.com/76600f5f-4cdd-4e96-bad4-d5f289477751_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People walk on the Louvre museum courtyard, in Paris, Friday, March 19, 2021. The French government backed off Thursday from ordering a tough lockdown for Paris and several other regions despite an increasingly alarming situation at hospitals with a rise
![Wearing masks as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, a vendor gives a complimentary, homemade guava pastry to an elderly woman in Havana, Cuba, Friday, March 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)](https://gdb.voanews.com/3e2377f0-d303-46bd-b03f-d443b8e60bd0_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Wearing masks as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, a vendor gives a complimentary, homemade guava pastry to an elderly woman in Havana, Cuba, Friday, March 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
![The top of the Feldberg mountain is covered with freshly fallen snow near Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, March 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)](https://gdb.voanews.com/2bf48afb-10a2-4ea3-bd7b-111b31f10b9e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The top of the Feldberg mountain is covered with freshly fallen snow near Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, March 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)