Coronavirus: Responses around the world

From China to Sweden to Kenya, from the halls of Congress to the Grand Mosque of Mecca, people around the world are scrambling to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus. Health officials across the globe are struggling to contain the outbreak and better understand it. 

Meanwhile, the number of cases, and deaths, continues to climb. 

Here, a woman wearing a face mask and gloves mourns next to cardboard boxes used as coffins outside a cemetery in Guayaquyil, Ecuador, on April 6, 2020. Soaring numbers of COVID-19 deaths in Ecuador’s second city, Guayaquil, have led to a shortage of coffins.

Caution: Some of these images may be disturbing.