IN PHOTOS: From Iraq to Brazil, how people are dealing with the coronavirus scare

BRAZIL: An employee puts straps on protective face masks at Destra Brasil factory, which struggles with material shortage due to high demand after the coronavirus outbreak in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

JAPAN: Gold medals for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics are displayed at Japan Mint in Osaka, Japan. Postponing the Games is now an open possibility, but also unrealistic, as billions spent by Japan’s government, sponsors, advertisers and insurers could be on edge.

USA: A masked visitor stares at an artwork that resembles a void at the 26th edition of The Armory Show 2020, an international art fair, which just opened at the Pier 94 and 90 despite New Yorkers' coronavirus fear in Manhattan, New York.

HONG KONG: A mask-wearing woman performs a 'villain hitting' ceremony on the day of Jingzhe in Causeway Bay district on March 5, 2020 in Hong Kong. Villain hitting is a way to curse a certain subject by beating a paper effigy with a slipper or shoe against a brick

ITALY: A pensioner, not wearing a mask, rides a bicycle past a statue that has had its face covered with a protective mask with the words "F**k virus" in San Fiorano, one of the towns on lockdown due to a coronavirus outbreak in San Fiorano, Italy

CHINA: A sports stadium has been converted into a makeshift hospital to treat patients of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak, China

USA: Rep. Jan Schakowsky speaks at a House Democrats Call For Affordable Coronavirus Vaccines And Treatments on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

IRAQ: Cabbar Hasan, an innovative craftsman, sews face masks using fabric, water bottle caps, salt, coal powder and cotton. There was a shortage of medical masks in the market in Suleymaniyah, where the first death from the coronavirus happened in Iraq

INDIA: India’s Union Minister for consumer affairs, food and public distribution, Ram Vilas Paswan, distributed masks to ministry officials and staff during an awareness campaign to prevent coronavirus spread at the Krishi Bhawan in New Delhi

THAILAND: People walk through an 'EM Auto Sanitizing Gate', amid concerns over the spread of the coronavirus outside a shopping centre in Bangkok

IRAQ: A student wears a protective face mask following the outbreak of the coronavirus, as she chants slogans during ongoing anti-government protests in Basra, Iraq. March 5, 2020.

AUSTRALIA: Empty shelves, usually stocked with tissue, seen at a supermarket in Melbourne. Coronavirus fears have triggered runs on several products, including hand sanitisers and face masks, with images of shoppers stacking trolleys with toilet rolls spreading on social media.

JERUSALEM. A statue of a chimpanzee bell-boy with a mask is seen at the entrance of The Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

AUSTRALIA. Restaurant chefs prepare dumplings at the award winning Golden Century Seafood Restaurant in Chinatown in Sydney which experienced a 50% drop in clientele this past week. Chinese restaurants in Sydney have lost the majority of their usual clientele - Chinese tourists and students - due to the current restrictions in place on people travelling from mainland China to Australia

CHINA: A couple wearing face masks pose for photos after registering their marriage amid coronavirus spread in Kunming, Yunnan Province

ITALY: Professors attend an online Engineering bachelor of arts graduation exam at Politecnico di Milano, in Milan. The Politecnico di Milano, counting 45,000 students, is the largest Italian technical university. In the effort to fight the Coronavirus outbreak which has made Italy the hub of the epidemic among the advanced economies, the university has started giving online classes and exams

USA: Traders work the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as the markets continue to  swing wildly over coronavirus fears. After coronavirus infections rose steadily in the U.S. the DOW ended down over 950 points, nearly 3.6%