A ventilator stands at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, U.S., on Monday, March 23, 2020. Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
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Tuesday
Migrant workers and their family members line up outside a New Delhi bus terminal hoping to board a bus for their villages. Millions have lost their ability to earn an income because of the government-imposed lockdown aimed at limiting the spread of the coronavirus. Bhuvan Bagga/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, seen here in Ashgabat in October 2019, earlier offered remedies to combat the virus from a book on medicinal plants that he authored. Alexei Druzhinin/AP hide caption
Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), speaks during a news conference in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, March 10th, 2020. Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
A health worker wears a protective suit at a nursing home, in Madrid, Spain, on Tuesday. With some of the highest cases of COVID-19 in the world, Spain's public health system is overstretched and in need of supplies. Manu Fernandez/AP hide caption
Spain's Health Staff Are Catching The Coronavirus As Protective Gear Runs Short
During a minute of silence commemorating COVID-19 victims, flags fly at half-staff Tuesday at Rome's monument to the unknown soldier. Andrew Medichini/AP hide caption
A pack of Plaquenil, (Hydrochloroquine) is displayed in a Parisian pharmacy on Tuesday in Paris, France. Chloroquine or Hydroxychloroquine, is now one treatments being evaluated in clinical trials as a possible preventative or treatment for COVID-19. Laurent Viteur/Getty Images hide caption
The grave of St. Charbel has long been visited by people seeking comfort and healing. Alice Fordham for NPR hide caption
In Lebanon, Some Turn To Beloved Local Saint For Solace And Protection From COVID-19
Rohingya refugees wait at a relief distribution point in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh on March 24. Suzauddin Rubel/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Christian Drosten, director of the Institute of Virology at Berlin's Charité hospital, is pictured after a news conference in Berlin on March 26, to comment on the spread of the novel coronavirus in Germany. Michael Kappeler/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
'Das Coronavirus' Podcast Captivates Germany With Scientific Info On The Pandemic
Indians line up to buy medicines in Hyderabad on Sunday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi apologized for imposing a three-week national lockdown, but said it was "needed to win" the battle against the coronavirus pandemic. India just surpassed 1,000 cases in recent days. Mahesh Kumar A/AP hide caption
As Pandemic Spreads, The Developing World Looks Like The Next Target
Monday
A person wearing protective equipment at a coronavirus testing site for first responders, on Monday in Los Angeles. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP hide caption
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador at a news conference at the presidential palace in Mexico City, on March 24. Marco Ugarte/AP hide caption
The logo of the World Health Organization (WHO) at its headquarters in Geneva. The organization says the coronavirus is primarily transmitted "through respiratory droplets and contact routes," not airborne transmission. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
People walk in Frederiksberg Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark, on March 28. Philip Davali/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images hide caption