Photos of People Fighting Against Coronavirus Around the World

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Volunteer workers in a clothing factory manufacturing firefighting gear, make hospital gowns for medical staff to protect them from the coronavirus, in Arnedo, northern Spain.

Image via AP/Alvaro Barrientos

By Associated Press

March 30, 2020

Politicians wearing protective gear to attend a session in Belgium. Canadians leaving notes at their windows so neighbors know they are not alone. Volunteer workers sewing masks nonstop to protect their nurses and doctors in Spain. Citizens volunteering to spray disinfectants in India and Afghanistan. And Pope Francis continues to pray from his window into an empty Piazza San Pietro.

The world has changed forever in only a few months. This is what it looks like.

Belgium: Where politicians wear protective gear to work

Vesselin Mareshki, right, leader of Bulgarian Political party Volya and an MP from his party wear protective suits during Parliamentary session in the Bulgarian National Assembly in Sofia, Bulgaria, on Friday, March 20, 2020.

Image via AP/Vesselin Borishev

Canada: Where ‘you are not alone’ notes decorate windows

Signs of support are shown on a window in Montreal, Sunday, March 29, 2020, as Coronavirus COVID-19 cases rise in Canada and around the world.

Image via Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press via AP

Germany: Where people seem to be following the quarantine rules

Only occasionally do cars drive over the city’s largest traffic junction, the Riebeckplatz in Halle, Germany, March 29, 2020. There are exit restrictions throughout Germany due to the coronavirus.

Image via Jan Woitas/dpa via AP

England: Where people were “called” to stay home

A red phone box stands in an empty street in Westminster, in London, Sunday, March 29, 2020. The public has been asked to self-isolate, keeping distant from others to limit the spread of the contagious COVID-19 coronavirus.

Image via AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali

England: Where people wish you luck and ask you to stay safe with graffiti

A jogger runs past graffiti that says ‘good luck and stay safe’ a reference to the ongoing battle to stop the spread of the coronavirus in London, Monday, March 30, 2020.

Image via AP Photo/Frank Augstein

England: Where keeping a distance from each other doesn’t have to look so bad

People sit on benches at Primrose Hill, in London, Sunday, March 29, 2020. The public has been asked to self-isolate, keeping distant from others to limit the spread of the contagious COVID-19 coronavirus.

Image via AP/Alberto Pezzali

Spain: Where volunteers work nonstop to protect their nurses and doctors with handmade masks

Volunteer workers in a clothing factory manufacturing firefighting gear, make hospital gowns for medical staff to protect them from the coronavirus, in Arnedo, northern Spain, Monday, March 30, 2020.

Image via AP/Alvaro Barrientos

Spain: Where the national guard is also working at hospitals to help contain the spread of the virus

Spanish Royal Guard soldiers during disinfection work at a hospital to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, March 29, 2020. Spain and Italy demanded more European help as they fight still-surging coronavirus infections amid the continent’s worst crisis since World War II.

Image AP Photo/Bernat Armangue

Spain: Where the tradition of talking to your neighbor balcón a balcón has seen a comeback

A woman stands to lean against the window during a nationwide confinement to counter the new coronavirus in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, March 29, 2020. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has announced that his government will order a two-week ban on commuting to all non-essential businesses starting on Monday.

Image via AP/Emilio Morenatti

France: Where not even the bad weather can stop first responders on a helicopter

A coronavirus patient from Metz in France is transported from a military helicopter for treatment at the University Hospital in Essen, Germany, in bad weather Sunday, March 29, 2020. Two COVID-19 coronavirus victims are to be treated in Germany.

Image via Marcel Kusch/dpa via AP

Sweden: Where some people still have a hard time staying at home despite the almost 4,000 confirmed cases

People sit in a restaurant in Stockholm, Sweden, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. The streets of Stockholm are quiet but not deserted. People still sit at outdoor cafes in the center of Sweden’s capital. After a long, dark Scandinavian winter, the coronavirus pandemic is not keeping Swedes at home even while citizens in many parts of the world are sheltering in place and won’t find shops or restaurants open on the few occasions they are permitted to venture out.

Image via AP Photo/David Keyton

Greece: Where the Prime Minister adds social distancing to the Independence Day celebration protocol

From right to left, Greek Prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Spokesman of the Greek Parliament Konstantinos Tasoulas, Greek former Prime Minister and leader of the main opposition Syriza party Alexis Tsipras, Greek Socialist party leader Fofi Gennimata and general secretary of the Greek Communist Party Dimitris Koutsoubas attend a short ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens on Wednesday, March 25, 2020. The annual military parade commemorates Greek Independence Day, which marks the start of the war of independence in 1821 against the 400-year Ottoman rule, was canceled Wednesday amid a circulation ban imposed to slow the spread of the COVID-19 but a flyover with jets and helicopters took place.

Yannis Kolesidis/Pool via AP)

Japan: Where the Olympics had to be postponed to 2021

Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee President Yoshiro Mori delivers a speech during the Tokyo 2020 Executive Board Meeting in Tokyo, Japan Monday, March 30, 2020. Mori talked to IOC President Thomas Bach on Monday about rescheduling the games for next year. The new date is July 23, 2021.

Image via AP Issei Kato/Pool Photo via AP

India: Where people are volunteering to spray disinfectant

An Indian girl stands amid smoke as municipal workers fumigate an area spray disinfectants as a precautionary measure against COVID-19 in Ahmedabad, India, Sunday, March 29, 2020. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi apologized to the public on Sunday for imposing a three-week national lockdown, calling it harsh but “needed to win” the battle against the coronavirus pandemic.

Image via AP/Ajit Solanki

Afghanistan: Where spraying cars with a disinfectant is a labor of love by volunteers

Volunteers in protective suits spray disinfectant on passing vehicles helping curb the spread of the coronavirus in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 29, 2020. The government Friday ordered a three-week lock-down for Kabul to stem the spread of the new coronavirus.

Image via AP Photo/Rahmat Gul

Vatican: Where Pope Francis doesn’t lose faith even when that means to pray solo from his window every day, to an empty Piazza San Pietro

Italian police cars patrol the area outside an empty St.Peter’s Square with the Basilica in the background during Pope Francis’ angelus prayer from his studio overlooking an empty square due to restrictions to contain the Covid-19 virus, at the Vatican, Sunday, March 29, 2020. Pope Francis is backing the U.N. chief’s call for a cease-fire in all conflicts raging across the globe to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.

Image via AP/Andrew Medichini

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