The Week in Pictures: April 3, 2020 - NBC News

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The Week in Pictures: Coronavirus tightens vise around the globe

The number of coronavirus cases worldwide has surpassed 1 million, with more than 51,000 deaths.

Updated April 3, 2020 9:46 AM CDT

Turkey

A woman with a face mask walks down an empty street in the usually busy Eminonu district of Istanbul on April 1.

— Chris McGrath / Getty Images

New York City

Medical workers wait to remove a body from Brooklyn Hospital on March 31.

Hospitals in New York have been forced to use refrigerated trucks to store the dead.

— Stephanie Keith / Getty Images

Russia

Police officers patrol an almost empty Red Square in Moscow on March 30.

President Vladimir Putin says the country has managed to slow down the spread of coronavirus but should be prepared for contagions to quickly grow.

— Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP

Washington

Judie Shape, 81, who had been diagnosed with COVID-19 and was a resident at Life Care Center of Kirkland, the long-term care facility linked to confirmed coronavirus cases in Washington state, leaves the center with her daughter on March 26.

— David Ryder / Reuters

New York City

Members of Samaritans's Purse, an international Christian humanitarian organization, put the finishing touches on a field hospital in Central Park in Manhattan on March 30.

The 68-bed field hospital is equipped to serve as a respiratory care unit.

— Spencer Platt / Getty Images

New York City

A healthcare worker sits on a bench near Central Park on March 30.

— Jeenah Moon / Reuters

California

Empty beaches in Manhattan Beach on April 2 after Los Angeles issued a stay-at-home order and closed beaches and state parks.

— Lucy Nicholson / Reuters

Spain

Coffins of coronavirus victims are stored in an underground parking lot at the Collserola funeral home in Barcelona on April 2.

— Felipe Dana / AP

France

A medical worker watches through the window of a medicalized TGV high speed train before its departure from the Gare d'Austerlitz station in Paris on April 1.

The train is evacuating patients from Paris-area hospitals to hospitals in Brittany where the outbreak has been limited so far.

— Thomas Samson / AFP - Getty Images

Paraguay

Fabian Ramirez, 11, and members of his family, search for discarded vegetables inside a trash bin at the "Mercado de Abasto," a market for vendors, in Asuncion on April 2.

— Jorge Saenz / AP

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Brazil

A volunteer disinfects a public bus station in Curitiba on April 1.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is strongly considering a ban on travel from Brazil, where his close ally Jair Bolsonaro is dismissing the danger of the coronavirus, causing controversy by claiming that is no more than a "little flu."

— Daniel Castellano / AFP - Getty Images

Britain

James Campbell runs a charity marathon in his garden to raise funds for the National Health Service in Cheltenham, England, on April 1.

Campbell calculated he would have to traverse his yard at least 7,000 times to reach 26.2 miles.

— Jacob King / PA via AP

Switzerland

The Matterhorn is illuminated with "#Hope" by Swiss light artist Gerry Hofstetter in the alpine resort of Zermatt on March 26.

— Valentin Flauraud / Keystone via AP

Florida

Farm workers harvest zucchini at Sam Accursio and Son's Farm in Florida City on April 1.

Sergio Martinez, a harvest crew supervisor, said that the coronavirus pandemic has caused them "to have to throw crops away due to less demand for produce in stores and restaurants. The farm workers who are essential to providing food for homebound families are worried that if the restaurants stay closed and peoples changed grocery store habits continue they would be out of work with no work for the near future."

— Joe Raedle / Getty Images




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A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter flies above USNS Comfort, a naval hospital ship with a 1,000 bed-capacity, as it enters New York Harbor on March 30.

— Mike Segar / Reuters

China

A customer pays for vegetables over barriers set up to keep customers at a distance in Wuhan, the epicenter of China's coronavirus outbreak, on April 1.

— Aly Song / Reuters

Britain

A student at Westlands Primary School paints a poster supporting her mother who works for the U.K.'s National Health Service at Newcastle-under-Lyme on April 2.

— Carl Recine / Reuters

South Africa

Shoppers sit on their carts while waiting outside a grocery store during a nationwide lockdown in Chatsworth, South Africa, on March 31.

— Rogan Ward / Reuters

San Francisco

Windows are lit in the shape of a heart at the InterContinental Hotel in San Francisco on April 1.

— Justin Sullivan / Getty Images

France

Trainers on the ground direct residents exercising on their balconies in Nantes, France, on March 27.

— Stephane Mahe / Reuters

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New York City

A pharmacist works in the Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens on April 1.

— Stephanie Keith / Getty Images

Uganda

A Red Cross volunteer takes a man's temperature before he can enter Nakasero market in Kampala, Uganda, on April 1.

— Sumy Sadurni / AFP - Getty Images

Vatican City

Pope Francis presides over a moment of prayer during the Urbi et Orbi Blessing at St. Peter's Square on March 27.

— Yara Nardi / Pool via AFP - Getty Images

Britain

Jason Baird, dressed as Spider-Man, entertains children stuck at home in Stockport, England, on April 1.

— Phil Noble / Reuters

India

A girl waits for her father to return with food at a school in New Delhi where her family is being quarantined on March 31.

— Manish Swarup / AP

France

Members of the Charitable Brotherhood of Saint-Eloi de Bethune carry a coffin to a grave at Pierrette cemetery in Bethune, France, on March 27.

— Denis Charlet / AFP - Getty Images

Washington, D.C.

President Donald Trump departs after addressing the coronavirus task force daily briefing as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, stands by at the White House on March 26.

— Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

Panama City

A passenger of Holland America's cruise ship Zaandam sits by a window as the ship navigates through the Panama Canal on March 29.

The Zaandam spent two weeks at sea with passengers who contracted coronavirus and was barred from South American ports.

Four people died on the ship, at least two of them from the coronavirus.

— Luis Acosta / AFP - Getty Images

Italy

Doctors and nurses during a break at the end of their shifts in Rome, Bergamo and Brescia, on March 27.

The intensive care doctors and nurses on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic in Italy are often almost unrecognizable behind their masks, scrubs, gloves and hairnets, their only barrier to contagion. Associated Press photographers fanned out to photograph them during rare breaks from hospital intensive care units in three cities. In each case, doctors, nurses and paramedics posed in front of forest green surgical drapes, the bland backdrop of their sterile wards.

— Domenico Stinellis, Antonio Calanni, Luca Bruno / AP

New York

A 4-year-old undocumented Honduran immigrant stands inside his bedroom window on March 30 in Mineola, N.Y.

The nine immigrants who share a Long Island rental house self-quarantined after one became ill with fever and the rest quickly followed. Most are largely recovered but never received tests for COVID-19. The coronavirus pandemic has been especially difficult for undocumented communities, who lack unemployment protections, health insurance and fear deportation if authorities know their whereabouts.

— John Moore / Getty Images

South Africa

South African Police Service arrest suspects who defied the lockdown order in Johannesburg  on March 27.

— Michele Spatari / AFP - Getty Images

New York City

One World Trade Center is illuminated in red, white and blue in recognition of the ongoing nationwide effort to combat coronavirus on March 30.

— Eduardo Munoz / Reuters