COVID-19 pandemic
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The global COVID-19 pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, began with an outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. It spread to other parts of Asia and then worldwide i
Medical professionals treating a COVID-19 patient in critical condition in an intensive care unit in São Paulo in May 2020
Chinese medics in Huanggang, Hubei, in 2020
Gravediggers bury the body of a man suspected of having died of COVID-19 in the cemetery of Vila Alpina in eastern São Paulo, 3 April 2020.
The deceased in a refrigerated "mobile morgue" outside a hospital in Hackensack, New Jersey, US, in April 2020
During the COVID-19 pandemic, face masks or coverings, including N95, FFP2, surgical, and cloth masks, were used as public and personal health control measures against the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the vi
US Ambassador to Indonesia Sung Kim accompanied by local officials at the Presidential Palace wearing face masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Cloth face masks
Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen wearing a surgical mask
A medical worker wearing a face shield adjunct to other personal protective equipment at a COVID-19 testing site