1/65 Medical staff members wearing protective clothing to help stop the spread of a deadly virus which began in the city of Wuhan, arrive with a patient at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital. The Chinese army deployed medical specialists to the epicentre of the spiralling viral outbreak that has killed and spread around the world AFP via Getty

2/65 A patient assisted by medical staff gets off an ambulance in Wuhan AFP/Getty

3/65 People line up to buy face masks from a medical supply company in Nanning, southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Countries began evacuating their citizens from the Chinese city hardest-hit by a new virus that has now infected more people in China than were sickened in the country by SARS Chinatopix via AP

4/65 Millions spent their normally festive Lunar New Year holiday under lockdown Getty

5/65 Children with face masks wash their hands before prayer at Erawan shrine in Bangkok. Thailand has detected eight Coronavirus cases so far AFP via Getty

6/65 An Indonesian health officer points at the screen of a thermal scanner for passengers China confirmed that the deadly Wuhan coronavirus virus can be transmitted between humans AFP via Getty

7/65 Hospital workers wearing protective eyewear and masks examine an Indonesian student who returned from China in quarantine at a hospital in Banda Aceh AFP via Getty Images

8/65 Ambulance staff dispose of an outfit at the hospital in Wuhan EPA

9/65 A person checks the temperature of a passenger to help stop the spread of a deadly virus as he arrives at the Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II International airport in Palembang AFP via Getty

10/65 Nepali students, wearing face masks, attend a class at Matribhumi School in Bhaktapur, on the outskirts of Kathmandu AFP via Getty Images

11/65 Medical staff at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital AFP via Getty

12/65 Two Buddhist monks wear face masks while walking along a street in Yangon AFP via Getty Images

13/65 Staff disinfecting a residential area in Ruichang, part of Jiujiang in China’s central Jiangxi province AFP via Getty

14/65 Workers are seen at the construction site of a new hospital being built to treat patients from a deadly virus outbreak in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province on January 27, 2020. – China is rushing to build a new hospital in a staggering 10 days to treat patients at the epicentre of a deadly virus outbreak that has stricken thousands of people, state media reported on January 24. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP) (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images) HECTOR RETAMAL AFP via Getty

15/65 Vapor blurs the goggles of an ambulance driver while they work, in Wuhan EPA

16/65 Workers producing facemasks at a factory in Yangzhou AFP via Getty

17/65 Medical staff getting on an ambulance in Wuhan AFP via Getty

18/65 A vendor of traditional masks wears a facial mask at his shop in Thamel EPA

19/65 An airport official checks the temperature of a passenger upon his arrival at the Bacha Khan International Airport in Peshawar AFP via Getty

20/65 Medical staff members arrive with a patient at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital AFP via Getty

21/65 An ambulance driver talking with medical staff in Wuhan AFP via Getty

22/65 Wuhan Hygiene Emergency Response Team leave the closed Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market The new coronavirus appears to have its origins in a seafood market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, a popular transport hub AFP via Getty

23/65 Workers produce protective suits at a factory in Nantong AFP via Getty

24/65 Passengers scanned by thermal imaging for body temperature as they go through health measures and procedures after they landed at Rome’s Fiumicino airport on a southern airlines flight from Wuhan Aeroporto Di Roma/AFP via Getty

25/65 A Thai royal guard wears a mask while on duty at the Grand Palace in Bangkok EPA

26/65 A man wearing a face mask rides a nearly empty subway train in Beijing AP

27/65 Medical staff members at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital AFP via Getty

28/65 A shopper wearing goggles with a face mask and gloves uses a self checkout machine at a supermarket in Wuhan AP

29/65 Medical staff transfer patients to Jinyintan hospital EPA

30/65 Members of the Italian Red Cross putting on protective gear, getting ready to give health checks to passengers that landed at Rome’s Fiumicino airport on a southern airlines flight from Wuhan Aeroporto Di Roma/AFP via Getty

31/65 A member of the Hong Kong government’s Civil Aid Service gestures at the entrance to the Lady MacLehose Holiday Village which is being used as one of two quarantine centres for people who have been in close proximity with suspected cases of a SARS-type virus. Hong Kong will turn two holiday camps, including a former military barracks, into quarantine zones for people who may have come into contact with carriers of the Wuhan virus, officials announced AFP via Getty Images

32/65 Medical staff wearing protective suits at the Zhongnan hospital in Wuhan STR/AFP via Getty

33/65 A Malaysia Health official checks passengers going through a thermal scanner upon their arrival at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport EPA

34/65 Staff disinfecting Yingtan North Railway Station, China China banned trains and planes from leaving the major city at the centre of a virus outbreak on January 23, seeking to seal off its 11 million people to contain the contagious disease that has claimed lives and spread to other countries AFP via Getty

35/65 A passenger walks past a quarantine control station at Narita airport, Japan EPA

36/65 Patients queue up to seek treatment in Wuhan Tongji Hospital Fever Clinic, in Wuhan EPA

37/65 Quarantine workers spray disinfectant at Incheon International Airport, South Korea EPA

38/65 A member of staff checks the temperature of a guest entering the casino of the New Orient Landmark hotel in Macau, after it reported its first case of the new SARS-like virus AFP via Getty

39/65 Medical staff transfer patients to Jin Yintan hospital Little is known about the new disease which, if confirmed, would be only the seventh coronavirus known to science that can infect humans Getty

40/65 Members of the Three Gorges Medical Laboratory offering free masks to the public in Yichang, China AFP via Getty

41/65 Gabriel Leung, right, chair professor of public health medicine at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, speaks about the extent of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak in China AFP via Getty

42/65 Members of staff of the Wuhan Hygiene Emergency Response Team conducting searches on the closed Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market AFP via Getty

43/65 A quarantine officer at Incheon International Airport, South Korea, uses an electronic thermometer to check the temperature of passengers arriving by plane from Wuhan The virus causes symptoms of viral pneumonia, and has already led to several deaths EPA

44/65 A screen shows cancelled flights at Tianhe airport in Wuhan AFP via Getty

45/65 Medical staff transfer patients to Jinyintan hospital EPA

46/65 Health officials hand out information about the current coronavirus at Kuala Lumpur International Airport AP

47/65 A store owner argues with security guards as he attempts to enter the closed Huanan wholesale seafood market AFP via Getty

48/65 Workers producing facemasks at a factory in Handan, China’s northern Hebei province AFP via Getty

49/65 Medical staff and security personnel stop patients’ family members from being too close to the Jinyintan hospital Reuters

50/65 maya-goodfellowAn airport staff member uses a temperature gun to check people leaving Wuhan Tianhe International Airport AP

51/65 A rescue worker walks past a notice about new coronavirus that has broken out in China Reuters

52/65 Health officials wear face masks at an inspection site at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang AP

53/65 Medical staff members carry a patient into the Jinyintan hospital AFP via Getty

54/65 A staff member checks body temperature of a child after a train from Wuhan arrived at Hangzhou Railway Station in Hangzhou AFP via Getty Images

55/65 A quarantine station measures passenger body temperatures at Narita Airport JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty

56/65 Passengers walk past a notice displayed near a quarantine control station at Narita airport EPA

57/65 Passengers walk past a poster alerting on coronavirus screening ahead upon their arrival at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport EPA

58/65 An employee sprays disinfectant on a train, as a precaution against coronavirus, at Suseo Station in Seoul EPA

59/65 Kazakh sanitary-epidemiological service worker uses a thermal scanner to detect travellers from China who may have symptoms possibly connected with the previously unknown coronavirus, at Almaty International Airport, Kazakhstan Reuters

60/65 Pharmacist Liu Zhuzhen stands near a sign reading “face masks are sold out” at her pharmacy in Shanghai AP

61/65 The Wuhan Medical Treatment Center, EPA

62/65 A worker in a protective suit at the closed seafood market in Wuhan Reuters

63/65 Passengers wear protective face masks at the departure hall of a high speed train station in Hong Kong AP

64/65 A notice for passengers from Wuhan Getty