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An employee of the Municipality of Athens sprays disinfectant at the Syntagma square in Athens, Greece, March 24, 2020. City streets across Greece were deserted as the government launched on Monday a 14-day nationwide lockdown in an effort to contain the further spread of the novel coronavirus. Greece has registered so far 17 deaths linked to COVID-19, up from 15 reported a day earlier and 71 new confirmed cases, bringing the total to 695, said Sotirios Tsiodras, Health Ministry spokesperson on the epidemic, at a regular press conference on Monday. (Photo by Marios Lolos/Xinhua)
