Rodent feces and remains were found in multiple outbuildings
A man crosses an empty highway in Wuhan, China.
Chinese women wear masks as they walk by a window display marking the Chinese New Year and Spring Festival in Beijing, China.
Italian tourists wearing protective respiratory masks tour outside Rome's Colosseum.
Protective face masks on sale in Bangkok, Thailand.
A health official is pictured during a drill to prepare for the potential arrival of passengers infected with the coronavirus at Sofia airport, Bulgaria.
The Inter Milan and Ludogorets football teams line up at the San Siro in Milan for a Europa League match in an empty stadium after fans were not allowed to enter the venue.
Construction workers drive excavators at the site of a new 1,000-bed field hospital being built to accommodate the increasing number of coronavirus patients in Wuhan, China.
Chinese police officers wearing masks stand in front of the Tiananmen in Beijing, China.
A Kenyan nurse adjusts her protective gear during a demonstration of preparations for any potential coronavirus cases at the Mbagathi Hospital Isolation Centre in Nairobi.
Vietnamese students of Hanoi National University of Education, wearing protective masks, attend the first day of classes after returning to the university, which was closed for over a month due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Medical personnel in protective suits distribute meals at a sports stadium in Wuhan which has been converted into a makeshift hospital to treat patients of the coronavirus.
A road is blocked in San Fiorano during quarantine in one of the 11 small towns in northern Italy that has been on lockdown since February.
Bruce Aylward of the World Health Organisation (WHO) attends a Beijing news conference where the disease is announced as Covid-19.
Masked flight attendants fill out health alert cards before thermal scanner checks at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport near Jakarta, as Indonesia confirms its first cases of coronavirus disease.
Sprays of flowers are seen on a fence of the closed Collège Jean de la Fontaine after the death of a teacher from coronavirus in Crépy-en-Valois, France.
American citizens wave from a bus as they leave the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship at Daikoku Pier in Yokohama, Japan, to be repatriated to the US.
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures in front of a map of Italy during a visit to the Public Health England National Infection Service in Colindale in north London.
Quarantined hotel guests peer through a window at H10 Costa Adeje Palace in Tenerife, the largest of Spain’s Canary Islands.
A passenger wearing a face mask arrives at Heathrow Airport in London. Airports are considered high risk zones where thousands of people congregate in a relatively small area.
The coronavirus outbreak provides a topical theme at the Rosenmontag (Rose Monday) carnival parade in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Rescue workers are seen on the site where a hotel being used as a coronavirus quarantine center collapsed in the southeastern Chinese port city of Quanzhou. At least 10 people are dead, with dozens more still missing.
President Donald Trump holds a news conference on the coronavirus outbreak at the White House in Washington, D.C. He's clutching a press release titled: "The Countries Best and Worst Prepared For An Epidemic."
Mounted police officers ride through snow on their way to visit residents who live in remote areas in Altay, in China's far northern Xinjiang region.
The normally busy Piazza Duomo in Milan is seen near-deserted. Tourists are staying away and locals have been told to stay indoors.
Local Filipino residents wearing face masks light candles as they pray at a church in Paranaque, Metro Manila.
A couple wearing protective face masks check their selfie after a visit to the Victoria Peak lookout in Hong Kong.
The interior of a bus at the Israeli-controlled Allenby Bridge crossing in Jericho is sanitized by a Palestinian worker as a preventive measure against coronavirus.
Despite the outbreak, people in China are trying to live their lives as normally as possible. These Shanghai Ballet dancers wear masks as they practice in a dance studio.
A cleaning staff member disinfects air vents of an Emirates Airbus A380 aircraft following the outbreak of the coronavirus in Dubai.
A sanitation team walk up a flight of stairs as they disinfect a railway station in Kunming in China's Yunnan province.
The Spanish Steps in Rome are usually overrun with tourists. Now it's virtually deserted after a decree orders for the whole of Italy to be on lockdown in an attempt to beat the coronavirus.
Portuguese nationals who were in the coronavirus-stricken Chinese city of Wuhan are pictured at Figo Maduro military airbase in Lisbon, Portugal, after being repatriated.
The Grand Princess cruise ship carrying passengers who had tested positive for the virus passes the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco, California.
The lines to reach the Transportation Security Administration immigration process are empty at one of its terminals at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, as people opt not to fly during the outbreak.
A South Korean couple seek solace in each other's company as they ride an escalator at a subway station in Seoul.
President Donald Trump, accompanied by White House staff, displays a photo of the COVID-19 coronavirus during a tour of the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia.
A waiter stands by empty tables outside a restaurant at St Mark's Square, Venice.
Caution would have to be taken when driving over this normally busy Shanghai crossroads. But this masked scooter rider has the road to himself.
The Grand Princess cruise ship carrying passengers who have tested positive for coronavirus is seen anchored in the Pacific Ocean outside San Francisco, California.
Empty shelves are seen at a supermarket in Canary Wharf in London's East End as unnecessary panic-buying starts to take its grip across the UK.
The new James Bond movie 'No Time To Die' was due for release in March. Its premiere has now been put back to November because of fears that cinema audiences would stay away because of the threat of coronavirus.
No way in: a security guard wearing a face mask is seen outside a closed temple in Shanghai, China.
Choosing to stay clear of crowds, Pope Francis delivers his weekly Angelus prayer via video transmitted onscreen at St. Peter's Square, in the Vatican.
A flight attendant suitably protected from possible transmission of the virus serves passengers during a Bamboo Airways flight from Da Nang to Hanoi, Vietnam.
Crowds, nearly all of them donning protective masks, congregate at Shinagawa station in Tokyo, Japan.
Iranian Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi tested positive for the virus soon after he was photographed sweating profusely while holding a press conference announcing measures to deal with the outbreak. Iran's Vice President Masumeh Ebtekar and more than 20 parliament deputies have also been confirmed as having the disease.
Fogging machines are being used around the world by health officials to disinfect business establishments and public spaces in a bid to cleanse the environment of the virus.
Despite the outbreak, thousands of couples attend a mass wedding held by the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, aka the Unification Church, at a ceremony in Gaypyeong County, South Korea.
A poster advertising Beijing's annual Spring Festival provides a striking backdrop for this image of a masked Chinese police official.
A South Korean child takes precautions while playing alone with a scooter on the near-empty streets of a Seoul neighborhood.
A Chinese couple wear plastic coats and protective masks as they shop for groceries at a supermarket in Beijing, China.
Workers in Wuhan set up beds at an exhibition center that was quickly converted into a hospital when the scale of the outbreak became apparent.
The coronaviruses owe their name to the crown-like projections, visible here under a microscope, that encircle the capsid, or protein shell of the virus. The outbreak was first identified in December 2019.
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Some residents in Beijing extend coronavirus preventative methods to their pets, as this Chinese woman demonstrates.
Chinese children wear plastic bottles as makeshift homemade protection and protective masks while waiting to check in to a flight at Beijing Capital International Airport.
A Beijing citizen is stopped and his temperature checked in a nearly empty and shuttered commercial street in the city.
A masked carnival reveler wears an additional protective face mask at the Venice Carnival. The last two days of the annual event were cancelled due to concerns about the spread of the disease.
A young girl draws a view of the coronavirus at her home in San Fiorano, Italy, as the entire country enters a prolonged period of quarantine.
An unprecedented image of the Kaaba at the Grand Mosque which is almost empty of worshippers after Saudi authorities suspended Umrah (an Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca that can be undertaken at any time of the year).
A man wears a mask while walking in Wuhan, China, where the new infectious coronavirus known as "2019-nCoV" was discovered.
First identified in December 2019 in the Chinese city of Wuhan, coronavirus and the respiratory disease it spreads, COVID-19, is now present in every continent on the planet except Antarctica. The rapid advance of the virus is alarming health officials, with new cases being reported around the world on a daily basis. So how has coronavirus affected the way we live, and how is society dealing with this new and deadly condition?
Click through the gallery and take a look at the coronavirus timeline—from a few hundred recorded cases three months ago, to currently over 116,000 people infected and over 4,000 dead worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center—and see how the world has changed.
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First identified in December 2019 in the Chinese city of Wuhan, coronavirus and the respiratory disease it spreads, COVID-19, is now present in every continent on the planet except Antarctica. The rapid advance of the virus is alarming health officials, with new cases being reported around the world on a daily basis. So how has coronavirus affected the way we live, and how is society dealing with this new and deadly condition?
Click through the gallery and take a look at the coronavirus timeline—from a few hundred recorded cases three months ago, to currently over 116,000 people infected and over 4,000 dead worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center—and see how the world has changed.