A mime artist performs for two children after getting a donation at a virtually empty Mall in Johannesburg, Sunday, March 22, 2020. There is a noticeable drop in crowds of shoppers at malls due the spread of the coronavirus. (Photo by Denis Farrell/AP Photo)





A girl washes her hands at the entrance of her parents' house in Pikine, on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal March 9, 2020. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)





A horse-drawn cart transports old goods in Soweto, South Africa, Thursday, March 19, 2020. As more African countries closed their borders, the coronavirus' local spread threatened to turn the continent of 1.3 billion people into an alarming new front for the pandemic. (Photo by Themba Hadebe/AP Photo)





In this photograph taken Thursday March 19, 2020 , A woman spills water at squatter camp in Soweto, South Africa. Some countries around the world lack the equipment and trained health workers to respond to the threat of COVID-19 virus. (Photo by Themba Hadebe/AP Photo)





Political supporters carry flags of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and United Transformation Movement (UTM) on their way to an event of a signed an electoral alliance of the two parties in Lilongwe on March 19, 2020. On March 19, 2020, the country's largest opposition, the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and United Transformation Movement (UTM) signed an electoral alliance at a ceremony attended by thousands of supporters in the capital Lilongwe. (Photo by Amos Gumulira/AFP Photo)





A boda-boda, or motorcycle taxi, driver wears a makeshift mask made from a local fabric known as Kitenge as he looks for customers in the Kibera neighbourhood of Nairobi, Kenya Friday, March 20, 2020. (Photo by Patrick Ngugi/AP Photo)





Muslims attend Friday prayers outside the closed Jamia Mosque amid concerns about the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in downtown Nairobi, Kenya on March 20, 2020. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





Reverend Dr Ebenezer Markwei celebrates a mass, live streamed to worshippers as all religious gatherings are suspended over concerns of the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Accra, Ghana, March 22, 2020. (Photo by Francis Kokoroko/Reuters)





A faithful applies hand sanitizer to a woman as she arrives to attend a church service at the Apostolic Christian Church in Kagiso, west of Johannesburg, South Africa, March 22,2020. (Photo by Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)





Somali schoolchildren walk home, while other people wear surgical masks, after the government announced the closure of schools and universities and banned large gatherings, following the announcement on Monday of the country's first case of the new coronavirus, in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, March 18, 2020. (Photo by Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo)





Somali schoolchildren finish their lessons at school before leaving to go home, after the government announced the closure of schools and universities and banned large gatherings, following the announcement on Monday of the country's first case of the new coronavirus, in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, March 18, 2020. (Photo by Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo)





Iftikhar Ahmad, a Pakistani shopkeeper, is one of the very few wearing a mask in the Diepsloot township north of Johannesburg, South Africa, Saturday March 21, 2020. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





Street traders wash their hands as they watch Kenyan Health Ministry officials spraying disinfectant to control the spread of the new coronavirus, in the Gikomba outdoor street market in the capital Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, March 21, 2020. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms such as fever and cough and the vast majority recover in 2-6 weeks but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health issues, the virus that causes COVID-19 can result in more severe illness, including pneumonia. (Photo by John Muchucha/AP Photo)





A man shelters from the rain with plastic bags, at a market in Tembisa, east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Monday, March 23, 2020. South Africa, Africa's most industralized economy and a nation of 57 million people, will to go into a nationwide lockdown for 21 days from Thursday to fight the spread of the new coronavirus. (Photo by Themba Hadebe/AP Photo)





People queue for public transport in Harare, Zimbabwe, Monday, March, 23, 2020. Zimbabwe has closed its borders to non essential human traffic following its first recorded coronavirus related death. (Photo by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo)





A woman attends a Sunday mass service at the Nairobi Baptist Church, which was streamed live on the internet with almost no attendees in order to limit the spread of the new coronavirus, in the capital Nairobi, Kenya Sunday, March 22, 2020. In Kenya, the Ministry of Health has banned all public gatherings and meetings in order to limit the spread of the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 but has permitted normal church services to continue so long as they provide hand sanitizing or washing facilities to attendees. (Photo by Brian Inganga/AP Photo)





Francis Kimani Waweru sits in his shoeshine stall, which he complains has seen few customers since fears of the new coronavirus took hold, on a street in downtown Nairobi, Kenya Friday, March 20, 2020. (Photo by Patrick Ngugi/AP Photo)





Train commuters hold on to the side of an overcrowded passenger train in Soweto, South Africa, Monday, March 16, 2020. South Africa will revoke nearly 10,000 visas issued this year to people from China and Iran, and visas will now be required for other high-risk countries that had been visa-free, including Italy and the United States. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness, especially in older adults and people with existing health problems. (Photo by Themba Hadebe/AP Photo)





A man sprays disinfectant to sanitize a public bus against the spread of the new coronavirus, in downtown Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, March 19, 2020. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Abbe Abekan travels around the streets as he prays to stop the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on March 22, 2020. (Photo by Thierry Gouegnon/Reuters)