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Photos: The world battles coronavirus; a million cases and counting
As of April 03, 2020 the world has recorded 1 million coronavirus infections and around 55,000 deaths. Countries around the world currently share in each other's predicaments at containing the spread of viral infections, the drastic curbs that containments ask of their citizens, and the wideranging effects these kind of restrictions hold for their economies in the near future.
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Sandra Dozie, 27, pets her rabbit in her home during a 14-day lockdown by authorities aimed at limiting the spread of the coronavirus, in Lagos, Nigeria on April 2, 2020. The virus has claimed over 1 million infections and upward of 54,000 deaths on April 3, according to the Worldometer tracker. (Temilade Adelaja / REUTERS)
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Medical staff at an NHS drive through coronavirus testing facility in the car park of Chessington World of Adventures in Chessington, England on April 3, 2020. Early detection remains essential to nationwide treatment and quarantine efforts globally. There is increasing global demand for coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 detection kits in short time frames. (Peter Nicholls / REUTERS)
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Hugh Harris, a civil servant in the Department of Health takes his son Oscar, aged 5 to school in London, England on April 3, 2020. The UK is under severe restrictions on movement, with people advised to remain indoors to check the spread of the virus. Around a third of the world’s population is currently under some form of lockdown (Hannah McKay / REUTERS)
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An Air France Boeing 777 aircraft takes off at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, in Roissy-en-France, France on March 16, 2020. The vast majority of global air traffic is currently grounded. The aviation industry is staring at its own year of losses as the fallout from the outbreak seems shaping into worse than the 2008 financial crisis. (Benoit Tessier/ REUTERS)
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A barber wearing a protective face mask and gloves shaves a man in his garden during a curfew imposed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the holy city of Kerbala, Iraq , on April 2. (Abdullah Diaa Al-Deen / REUTERS)
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An engineer outside Cobra Biologics arrives with a bioreactor in the hope of developing a vaccine against COVID-19 as the spread of the coronavirus continues in Keele, England. (Carl Recine / REUTERS)
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A volunteer sprays disinfectant in the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque before Friday prayers in Dhaka, Bangladesh on April 3. Regular sanitization of public places, individual efforts at maintaining hygiene and best practices like using masks, gloves and social distancing remain key in containing infections in the absence of proven cures. (Mohammad Ponir Hossain / REUTERS)
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