A vendor wears a face mask selling meat at a market in Hong Kong, Friday, January 31, 2020. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak sparked by a new virus in China that has spread to more than a dozen countries a global emergency after the number of cases spiked more than tenfold in a week, including the highest death toll in a 24-hour period reported Friday. (Photo by Vincent Yu/AP Photo)





Workers wearing protective gear spray disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus, at the main market in Gaza City, Thursday, March 19, 2020. The Middle East has some 20,000 cases of the virus, with most cases in Iran or linked to travel from Iran. The vast majority of people recover from COVID-19. (Photo by Adel Hana/AP Photo)





Syrian Sami Jawabreh wears a mask and gloves, as he rearranges fruits on display for sale at his shop, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, March 18, 2020. Lebanon has been taking strict measures to limit the spread of the coronavirus closing restaurants and nightclubs as well as schools and universities. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)





A woman sells mangoes in front of a shop selling Christmas trees and decoration at the market in Mekelle on January 4, 2020. The Ethiopian Orthodox Christmas is celebrated each year on January 7 and it's not usual to include western Christmas decoration, but according to local traders this started to change in Mekelle around 5 years ago. (Photo by Eduardo Soteras/AFP Photo)





Ceagesp market in São Paulo, Brazil on January 2012. On the fringes of São Paulo, Brazil’s biggest city, lies a massive fruit, vegetable and flower market – the third largest food wholesale operation in the world, and the busiest in Latin America, turning over more than $3bn a year. (Photo by Massimo Vitali/The Guardian)





Cambodian vendors carry fried tarantulas and insects in the town of Skun in Kampong Cham province on December 4, 2019. Tourists and traders flock to Skun in pursuit of the tastiest “a-ping”, or Cambodia tarantula, and this dusty town some 75 kms from the capital Phnom Penh is renowned for the beastly treat. (Photo by Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP Photo)





A person wearing a mask works on in a seafood market in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China, 25 February 2020. Guangzhou South China Sea Food Market was previously well known for exotic wildlife animals like crocodiles, yet now most of the shops in the market are closed. The Covid-19 epidemic that has killed more than 2,500 people mostly in China, has been linked to wild animals carrying a coronavirus and sold in a Wuhan wet market for food. On 24 February, China banned the trade and consumption of wild animals in order to battle coronavirus. (Photo by Alex Plavevski/EPA/EFE)





In this photograph taken on July 26, 2016, an Afghan fruit vendor waits for customers at a roadside stall in Herat. (Photo by Aref Karimi/AFP Photo)





A woman carries a box in front of her vegetable stand during high tide in Venice, Italy on December 24, 2019. (Photo by Manuel Silvestri/Reuters)





A woman wears a protective face mask, due to the global coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, as she waits to get her change after buying fruits in Dakar, Senegal on March 18, 2020. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)





A view shows a local food market, also known as bazaar, in Almaty, Kazakhstan on March 11, 2020. (Photo by Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters)





Traders salvage their stock from burnt out shops in Chaman, Pakistan, 14 February 2016. Some 50 shops in a grocery market were burnt by a fire damaging stocks worth hundreds of thousands of rupees in Chaman. (Photo by Akhter Gulfam/EPA)





Fruit sellers sell fruit at a fruit market in Karachi, Pakistan, 26 May 2017. (Photo by Shahzaib Akber/EPA)





An Afghan butcher sells buffalo legs along a street in Kabul on January 12, 2015. (Photo by Omar Sobhani/Reuters)





A firefighter disinfects a traditional shopping center to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in northern Tehran, Iran, Friday, March, 6, 2020. A Health Ministry spokesman warned authorities could use unspecified “force” to halt travel between major cities. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





People walk in the open air market of Belleville, in Paris, Friday, March 20, 2020. French President Emmanuel Macron said that for 15 days starting at noon on Tuesday, people will be allowed to leave the place they live only for necessary activities such as shopping for food, going to work or taking a walk. (Photo by Thibault Camus/AP Photo)





A worker carries vegetables on his back at a market in Lucknow, India, Sunday, December 29, 2019. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Onesmus Mauta, center, and Masumba, right, wear masks as they speak to a client, left, at their secondhand electronics street stall in the Kibera neighbourhood of Nairobi, Kenya Friday, March 20, 2020. (Photo by Patrick Ngugi/AP Photo)





Afghan tea seller Farooq Shah, center, fills kettles with tea for customers at a market place in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, December 4, 2019. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





A customer wears a face mask as he shops for seafood at a market in Beijing, Saturday, March 14, 2020. The United States declared a state of emergency Friday as many European countries went on a war footing amid mounting deaths as the world mobilized to fight the widening coronavirus pandemic. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)