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Photographer's note: Out doing shopping, two masked women wait to cross William Street in Chinatown. When out in public, many Chinese people chose to use masks - much more so than White Australians – as its more socially acceptable to do so in their communities. COVID-19 disease is caused by a COVID or coronavirus.