Residents protest after ransacking a half-built makeshift hospital for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) treatment, as they say its location is too close to a local community, in Yopougon, Abidjan, Ivory Coast on April 6, 2020. (Photo by Luc Gnago/Reuters)





The rangers of the dog squad search a motorcycle taxi for pangolin scales or hunting ammunition in the Dzanga-Sangha Park, in Bayanga, on March 14, 2020. The 4 species of African pangolins are present in the Central African Republic and protected by law since 2019. Poached by the local population, pangolin meat is consumed by hunters and the scales are destined for the Chinese pharmacopoeia market. One jar of pangolin scales sells in Bayanga for about 55 USD. (Photo by Florent Vergnes/AFP Photo)





Homeless recyclers and other destitute people, some of whom said they have not eaten in three days, are asked to practice social distancing by police as they lineup in a Johannesburg park, waiting to receive food baskets from private donors, Thursday, April 9, 2020. Because of South Africa's imposed lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19, many people who don't have savings and are unable to work are not able to buy food. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





A police officer assists volounteers organizing food parcels at a food distribution organized by the government to help residents to cope with the lockdown at the Agbogbloshie market in Accra, Ghana. April 4th 2020. Ghana has announced a two-week lockdown in the country's two main regions of Accra and Kumasi. The move came as the authorities reported 137 confirmed cases, including four deaths. (Photo by Nipah Dennis/AFP Photo)





Nuns attend the Last Supper Mass in a nearly empty cathedral amid an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on April 9, 2020. (Photo by Anne Mimault/Reuters)





Residents of the Alexandra township of Johannesburg, South Africa, wait in line to enter a grocery store Friday April 3, 2020. South Africa went into a nationwide lockdown for 21 days in an effort to control the spread of the coronavirus. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





Two women who were injured after being trampled lay on the ground, after residents desperate for a planned distribution of food for those suffering under Kenya's coronavirus-related movement restrictions pushed through a gate and created a stampede, causing police to fire tear gas and leaving several injured, at a district office in the Kibera slum, or informal settlement, of Nairobi, Friday, April 10, 2020. (Photo by Khalil Senosi/AP Photo)





Residents stand on a balcony as a South African National Defence Forces vehicle patrol the street, in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, April 7, 2020. South Africa and more than half of Africa's 54 countries have imposed lockdowns, curfews, travel bans or other restrictions to try to contain the spread of COVID-19. (Photo by Themba Hadebe/AP Photo)





Father Pedro (back), founder of the Akamasoa association, conducts the traditional great mass celebrating Easter in a granite quarry in Antananarivo on April 12, 2020, while respecting the rules of social distancing required since the lockdown of Antananarivo from March 23, 2020, to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. (Photo by Rijasolo/AFP Photo)





A member of the Kenya Youth Service wears a cloth face mask as he keeps members of the public at a distance as volunteers disinfect a road in an attempt to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, in downtown Nairobi, Kenya Friday, April 3, 2020. (Photo by John Muchucha/AP Photo)





A boy plays tennis outside his house before the curfew, amid an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in La Somone near Thies, Senegal on April 11 2020. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)





A woman walks back to her home after being summoned to do so by a South African police patrol in the densely populated Alexandra township of Johannesburg, Monday April 6, 2020. More than half of Africa’s 54 countries have imposed lockdowns, curfews, travel bans or other restrictions to try to contain the spread of COVID-19. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





In this photo taken Friday, April 10, 2020, Martine Milonde, a Congolese community mobilizer who works with the aid group World Vision in Beni, eastern Congo, which became the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak, engages the public about coronavirus prevention. Congo has been battling an Ebola outbreak that has killed thousands of people for more than 18 months, and now it must also face a new scourge: the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Al-hadji Kudra Maliro/AP Photo)





Children queue with their jerrycans to fill them with free water distributed by the Kenyan government at Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, on April 7, 2020. President Kenyatta announced the distribution of free water to low income communiites to curb the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus. (Photo by Gordwin Odhiambo/AFP Photo)





A young boy plays with his brother on the street in Thokoza, east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday, April 3, 2020. South Africa went into a nationwide lockdown for 21 days in an effort to control the spread of the coronavirus. (Photo by Themba Hadebe/AP Photo)





A Somali policeman attempts to disperse revellers swimming in the Indian Ocean near Lido beach, as part of measures to prevent the potential spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), in Mogadishu, Somalia on April 3, 2020. (Photo by Feisal Omar/Reuters)





A police officer chases shoppers to clear the streets of the Red Light market on the first day of lockdown to stop the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Monrovia, Liberia on April 11, 2020. (Photo by Derick Snyder/Reuters)





Suspects are lined up against a wall as a member of the South African Police Service (SAPS) wearing gloves arrests them because they defied the lockdown order during an operation in the Johannesburg CBD, on March 27, 2020. South Africa came under a nationwide military-patrolled lockdown on March 27, 2020, joining other African countries imposing strict curfews and shutdowns in an attempt to halt the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus across the continent. (Photo by Michele Spatari/AFP Photo)





UNITA, the main Angolan opposition party, delivers food aid to poor families in Cacuaco municipality, near Luanda, Angola, 06 April 2020. UNITA has appealed for more solidarity to the more vulnerable communities during the emergency state in the country due to the ongoing pandemic of the COVID-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, reports state. (Photo by Ampe Rogerio/EPA/EFE)





An Ethiopian Orthodox Christian woman, holding an umbrella, makes her way to attend the Hosanna Day (Happiness Day) celebrations held a week ahead of the Easter, at the Bole Medehanialem Church in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on April 12, 2020. (Photo by Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)