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Panama Canal Sends Thousands of Workers Home

A tug boat guides a container ship through the Panama Canal.

Photographer: TY WRIGHT/Bloomberg News
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The gatekeepers of global trade routes are trying to keep goods moving through a wounded world economy while trying to minimize health threats to their own workers.