Traders work on the floor at the opening bell of the Dow Industrial Average at the New York Stock Exchange on March 18, 2020 in New York. Wall Street stocks resumed their downward slide early Wednesday as the economic toll mounts from the rapid near-shutdown of key industrial and services sectors.About 15 minutes into trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 20,040.66, down around 1,200 points or 5.6 percent. (Photo by Bryan R. Smith/AFP Photo)





People queue with full carts at a supermarket in Cali, Colombia on March 18, 2020. Nine Latin American countries have coordinated to protect themselves and counteract the effects of the new coronavirus, in a region where seven people infected have already died and where borders have been closed, increasingly restricting the mobility of people. (Photo by Luis Robayo/AFP Photo)





Personnel walks near a model quarantine zone at the Nepalese Army headquarters amid concerns about the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Kathmandu, Nepal on March 18, 2020. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Medical assistant Miriam Fuentes gives a patient instructions via sign at a drive-through COVID-19 coronavirus testing station for University of Washington Medicine patients Tuesday, March 17, 2020, in Seattle. The appointment-only drive-through clinic began a day earlier. Health authorities in Washington reported more COVID19 deaths in the state that has been hardest hit by the outbreak. (Photo by Elaine Thompson/AP Photo)





Airline staff stands next to a flight schedule board showing numerous canceled flights due to the coronavirus at the Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, Wednesday, March 18, 2020. 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 Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Trucks are jammed in the early morning on Autobahn 12 in front of the German-Polish border crossing near Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, Wednesday, March 18, 2020. In order to make it more difficult for the corona virus to spread, Poland had reintroduced controls at the border crossings to Germany. (Photo by Patrick Pleul/dpa via AP Photo)





Visitors stand on boxes for social distancing inside an elevator at a shopping mall in Surabaya, East Java province, Indonesia, March 18, 2020. (Photo by Zabur Karuru/Antara Foto via Reuetrs)





A fried chicken vendor wears a face mask as a preventative measure against the spread of the new coronavirus, in La Paz, Bolivia, Wedensday, March 18, 2020. Authorities have decreed a quarantine from 5pm to 5am in an attempt to stop the spread of the new coronavirus. The vast majority of people recover from the COVID-19 disease. (Photo by Juan Karita/AP Photo)





A picture taken on march 18, 2020 shows placards reading “Corona is also what we do out of it” (top) and “Imagine this is Corona and nobody looks at it panickly” on a pole in Stuttgart, southern Germany, on March 18, 2020. German Chancellor will for the first time deliver a televised address to German citizens on the escalating coronavirus crisis on March 18, 2020 in the evening. (Photo by Thomas Kienzle/AFP Photo)





In this photo taken Monday, March 16, 2020, Serbian Army soldiers stand guard outside the Clinic for Infectious and Tropical Diseases in Belgrade, Serbia. Although the global COVID-19 pandemic has not hit Eastern and Central Europe with such a force compared to Italy, Spain and France, health officials throughout the region are sounding alarm about the lack of medical staff, facilities, equipment and enough hospital beds to handle several virus outbreaks simultaneously. (Photo by Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo)





Lawmakers wearing face masks as a precaution against the spread of COVID-19 attend a session in Congress, in Guatemala City, Wednesday, March 18, 2020. Guatemala's President Alejandro Giammattei delivered his emergency economic relief plan spurred by the coronavirus crisis. (Photo by Moises Castillo/AP Photo)





A man wearing a face mask travels by train in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, March 18, 2020. Spain will mobilize 200 billion euros or the equivalent to one fifth of the country's annual output in loans, credit guarantees and subsidies for workers and vulnerable citizens, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced Tuesday. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo)





An office worker wearing a mask against coronavirus moves past lantern decorations in a mall and office building in Beijing on Thursday, March 19, 2020. China has only just begun loosening draconian travel restrictions within the country, but has stepped-up 14-day quarantine regulations on those arriving in Beijing, Shanghai and elsewhere from overseas, amid expectations of a new influx of students and others returning home. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Foreigners wear raincoats before entering departure area of Manila's International Airport, Philippines on Wednesday, March 18, 2020. The Philippine government lifted a 72-hour deadline for thousands of foreign travelers to leave the country's main northern region which has been placed under quarantine due to the growing number of coronavirus infections, officials said. (Photo by Joeal Calupitan/AP Photo)





A paramilitary police officer in a hazmat suit walks among pilgrims as he disinfects a tent built on a field where a mass congregation is supposed to be held in Gowa, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Thursday, March 19, 2020. Indonesia halted the congregation of thousands of Muslim pilgrims and began quarantining and checking their health Thursday to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. The vast majority of people recover from the new coronavirus. According to the World Health Organization, most people recover in about two to six weeks, depending on the severity of the illness. (Photo by Syaief/AP Photo)





A street artist waits for tourists on an empty Dam Square. around noon outside the Royal Palace, rear, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday, March 18, 2020. The Dutch government ordered all Dutch schools, cafes, restaurants, coffeeshops, sеx clubs and sport and fitness clubs to be closed as the government sought to prevent the further spread of coronavirus in the Netherlands. (Photo by Peter Dejong/AP Photo)





Women wearing a face mask are reflected on a window of a temporarily closed store in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 18, 2020. The sign reads: “Temporarily closed store”. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





In this March 18, 2020 photo, people stand in a spaced line as they wait to buy pork at the entrance gate of a closed residential community in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province. Last month, Wuhan was overwhelmed with thousands of new cases of coronavirus each day. But in a dramatic development that underscores just how much the outbreak has pivoted toward Europe and the United States, Chinese authorities said Thursday that the city and its surrounding province had no new cases to report. The virus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough, for most people, but severe illness is more likely in the elderly and people with existing health problems. (Photo by Chinatopix via AP Photo)





A volunteer disinfects a passenger bus as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Wednesday, March 18, 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 Mulugeta Ayene/AP Photo)





Travellers in protective clothing have a break before their flight at Heathrow Airport in London, Wednesday, March 18, 2020. Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has taken the decision to advise British nationals against non-essential travel globally for an initial period of 30 days, and of course subject to ongoing review. (Photo by Frank Augstein/AP Photo)





A minibus taxi driver wearing a face musk looks on during his journey in Kwa-Thema east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, March 17, 2020. President Cyril Ramaphosa said all schools will be closed for 30 days from Wednesday and he banned all public gatherings of more than 100 people. South Africa will close 35 of its 53 land borders and will intensify screening at its international airports. (Photo by Themba Hadebe/AP Photo)





A man, wearing a protective mask following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), walks in Tokyo, Japan on March 17, 2020. (Photo by Edgard Garrido/Reuters)





Passengers are pictured inside a public bus during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 18, 2020. (Photo by Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)