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Coronavirus across the world: In pictures

Coronavirus across the world: In pictures
Story19 June 2020Hannah Myerson

Coronavirus has now reached almost all of the countries Concern works in. But what does a pandemic look like across the globe? Here are some of the most compelling photos we’ve received from our colleagues around the world.

Shyreen and her sons after receiving soap from Concern's team in Malawi
Shyreen with her sons Ramsy and Leonard after receiving soap and Covid-19 information fliers from Concern’s team in Malawi. Photo: Concern Worldwide

Shyreen with her sons Ramsy and Leonard, after receiving soap and Covid-19 information fliers from Concern’s team in Malawi. Photo: Concern Worldwide

Covid-19 prevention information displayed in Malawi
Covid-19 prevention information displayed in Malawi. Photo: Henry Mhango/Concern Worldwide

Covid-19 prevention information displayed in Malawi. Photo: Henry Mhango/Concern Worldwide

Hygiene kits being distributed at Khankay camp, Iraq
Hygiene kits funded by ECHO being distributed at Khankay camp for internally displaced people, Iraq. Photo: Concern Worldwide.

Hygiene kits funded by ECHO being distributed at Khankay camp for internally displaced people, Iraq. Photo: Concern Worldwide.

Getruide, a community Health Volunteer in Malawi, holds a hand sanitiser
Getruide, a community Health Volunteer in Malawi, holds a hand sanitiser she will use to teach community members on best handwashing practices. Photo: Henry Mhango/Concern Worldwide

Getruide, a community Health Volunteer in Malawi, holds a hand sanitiser she will use to teach community members on best handwashing practices. Photo: Henry Mhango/Concern Worldwide

Street art in Kenya spreading awareness of the coronavirus pandemic
The centre of the Kibera slum area in Nairobi, Kenya, including street art to spread awareness of the coronavirus pandemic by the Art 360 artist collective. Photo: Ed Ram/Concern Worldwide

The centre of the Kibera slum area in Nairobi, Kenya, including street art to spread awareness of the coronavirus pandemic by the Art 360 artist collective. Photo: Ed Ram/Concern Worldwide

Roseline, a dressmaker from Haiti, outside her home with her son
Roseline, 38, a dressmaker from Haiti, outside her home with her son. Roseline received a hygiene kit from Concern to help reduce the spread of coronavirus. Photo: Dieu Nalio Chery/Concern Worldwide

Roseline, 38, a dressmaker from Haiti, outside her home with her son. Roseline received a hygiene kit from Concern to help reduce the spread of coronavirus. She said, "Concern is the only organisation who help us here in Cite Soleil to fight the virus." Photo: Dieu Nalio Chery/Concern Worldwide

Roseline, 38, a dressmaker from Haiti, who received a hygiene kit from Concern
Roseline, 38, a dressmaker from Haiti, who received a hygiene kit from Concern to help reduce the spread of coronavirus. Photo: Dieu Nalio Chery/Concern Worldwide

Handwashing kits ready to be delivered to community and health centres in Zabout, Chad. Photo: Ndouatan Olivier/Concern Worldwide

Three brothers attend a Covid-19 awareness session in Tahoua, Niger.
Three brothers attend a Covid-19 awareness session in Tahoua, Niger. Photo: Marie Rabo/Concern Worldwide.

Three brothers attend a Covid-19 awareness session in Tahoua, Niger. They learned to set up a Tippy Tap handwashing station and received soap and training on handwashing techniques. Photo: Marie Rabo/Concern Worldwide.

Louismene, who has received hygiene kits from Concern in Haiti
Louismene, 36, in the home she shares with her four children in the Cite Soleil slum, Haiti. Louismene is a fish seller who has received hygiene kits from Concern to help prevent the spread of coronavirus. Photo: Dieu Nalio Chery/Concern Worldwide.

Louismene, 36, in the home she shares with her four children in the Cite Soleil slum, Haiti. Louismene is a fish seller who has received hygiene kits from Concern to help prevent the spread of coronavirus. Photo: Dieu Nalio Chery/Concern Worldwide.

Street art in Kenya to spread awareness of the coronavirus pandemic
The centre of the Kibera slum area in Nairobi, Kenya, including street art to spread awareness of the coronavirus pandemic by the Art 360 artist collective. Photo: Ed Ram/Concern Worldwide

The centre of the Kibera slum area in Nairobi, Kenya, including street art to spread awareness of the coronavirus pandemic by the Art 360 artist collective. Photo: Ed Ram/Concern Worldwide

Cherica, two, washes her hands in Haiti
Cherica, two, washes her hands in front of her grandmother's home in the Cite Soleil slum, a district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Photo: Dieu Nalio Chery/Concern Worldwide

Cherica, two, washes her hands in front of her grandmother's home in the Cite Soleil slum, a district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Photo: Dieu Nalio Chery/Concern Worldwide

A group of face masks hanging with an umbrella
Dave Smith, Concern’s Country Director in Liberia, has a few essentials he takes before going outside, including his new Concern face mask. Photo: Dave Smith/Concern Worldwide

Dave Smith, Concern’s Country Director in Liberia, has a few essentials he takes before going outside, including his new Concern face mask: 'It’s the rainy season, so my umbrella is handy. But so are my face masks. I don’t leave home without them.” Photo: Dave Smith/Concern Worldwide

Kona* a Concern programme participant washing her hands as a preventative measure to the spread of COVID-19 Photo: AKM Jakaria / Concern Worldwide

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