IN PHOTOS: From Iraq to Brazil, how people are dealing with the coronavirus scar
The fearful epidemic is making inroads all over the world, roiling the markets and people, as they scramble to protect themselves while waiting for a medical breakthrough
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, Italy
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, China
USA: Rep. Jan Schakowsky speaks at a House Democrats Call For Affordable Coronavirus Vaccines And Treatments on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
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 Iraq
INDIA: India’s 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 Delhi
THAILAND: People walk through an "EM Auto Sanitizing Gate", amid concerns over the spread of the coronavirus outside a shopping centre in Bangkok
IRAQ: A student wears a protective face mask following the outbreak of the coronavirus, as she chants slogans during ongoing anti-government protests in Basra, Iraq. March 5, 2020.
AUSTRALIA: Empty shelves, usually stocked with tissue, seen at a supermarket in Melbourne. Coronavirus fears have triggered runs on several products, including hand sanitisers and face masks, with images of shoppers stacking trolleys with toilet rolls spreading on social media.
JERUSALEM. A statue of a chimpanzee bell-boy with a mask is seen at the entrance of The Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
AUSTRALIA. Restaurant chefs prepare dumplings at the award winning Golden Century Seafood Restaurant in Chinatown in Sydney which experienced a 50% drop in clientele this past week. Chinese restaurants in Sydney have lost the majority of their usual clientele - Chinese tourists and students - due to the current restrictions in place on people travelling from mainland China to Australia
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