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 continues to climb.
Here, a ballooned rubber glove props up the breathing pipe for a patient in critical condition in a hospital designated for patients with COVID-19 — the disease caused by the coronavirus — in Wuhan, China, on March 6, 2020.
