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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 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. Photo: Henry Mhango/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 she will use to teach community members on best handwashing practices. Photo: Henry Mhango/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, 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
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. They learned to set up a Tippy Tap handwashing station and received soap and training on handwashing techniques. Photo: Marie Rabo/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.
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 front of her grandmother's home in the Cite Soleil slum, a district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Photo: Dieu Nalio Chery/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