BRAZIL: An employee puts straps on protective face masks at Destra Brasil factory, which struggles with material shortage due to high demand after the coronavirus outbreak in Sao Paulo, Brazil.Image by REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
JAPAN: Gold medals for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics are displayed at Japan Mint in Osaka, Japan. Postponing the Games is now an open possibility, but also unrealistic, as billions spent by Japan&rsquos government, sponsors, advertisers and insurers could be on edge.Image by Kyodo via REUTERS
USA: A masked visitor stares at an artwork that resembles a void at the 26th edition of The Armory Show 2020, an international art fair, which just opened at the Pier 94 and 90 despite New Yorkers" coronavirus fear in Manhattan, New York.Image by Selcuk Acar/NurPhoto via Getty Images
HONG KONG: A mask-wearing woman performs a "villain hitting" ceremony on the day of Jingzhe in Causeway Bay district on March 5, 2020 in Hong Kong. Villain hitting is a way to curse a certain subject by beating a paper effigy with a slipper or shoe against a brickImage by Anthony Kwan/Getty Images
ITALY: A pensioner, not wearing a mask, rides a bicycle past a statue that has had its face covered with a protective mask with the words "F**k virus" in San Fiorano, one of the towns on lockdown due to a coronavirus outbreak in San Fiorano, ItalyImage by Marzio Toniolo via REUTERS
CHINA: A sports stadium has been converted into a makeshift hospital to treat patients of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak, ChinaImage by China Daily via REUTERS
USA: Rep. Jan Schakowsky speaks at a House Democrats Call For Affordable Coronavirus Vaccines And Treatments on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.Image by Samuel Corum/Getty Images
IRAQ: Cabbar Hasan, an innovative craftsman, sews face masks using fabric, water bottle caps, salt, coal powder and cotton. There was a shortage of medical masks in the market in Suleymaniyah, where the first death from the coronavirus happened in IraqImage by Fariq Faraj Mahmood/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
INDIA: India&rsquos Union Minister for consumer affairs, food and public distribution, Ram Vilas Paswan, distributed masks to ministry officials and staff during an awareness campaign to prevent coronavirus spread at the Krishi Bhawan in New DelhiImage by Arvind Yadav/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
THAILAND: People walk through an "EM Auto Sanitizing Gate", amid concerns over the spread of the coronavirus outside a shopping centre in BangkokImage by Jack Taylor / AFP via Getty Images
