Countries around the world disinfect to counter spread of coronavirus

Countries are trying to counter the spread of COVID-19 by disinfecting public places

Last updated: April 01, 2020 | 07:24

Compiled by Nathaniel Lacsina, Digital Content Producer

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A municipal worker wearing protective gear sprays disinfectant on a house during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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A municipal worker holds a pipe as he helps to disinfects a market in the popular Grande Dakar neighbourhood of Dakar, Senegal.

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A municipal worker sprays disinfectant in a residential area during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Mumbai, India.

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Volunteers wearing protective gears as a precautionary measure against the COVID-19 novel coronavirus spray disinfectant at a market in Kabul, Afghanistan.

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A worker disinfects the area in an underpass in Budapest, Hungary early morning, amid the spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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Brazilian soldiers disinfect the Subway Central Station and its surroundings, as a measure against the spread of the coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic in Brasilia, Brazil.

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Staff members spraying disinfectant at a shopping mall as it prepares to reopen to the public after closing due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province.

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An employee of a cleaning company sprays chlorine as he disinfects the streets of Neuilly-Plaisance, near Paris.

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An employee wearing a protective suit sprays disinfectant as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, as a passenger looks on, on a train at the Central Railway Station in Bangkok, Thailand.

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People walk through a disinfectant chamber as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, before entering a shopping mall in Surabaya, Indonesia.

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A municipal worker sprays disinfectant on a police officer's shoes in Atulugama, after the town that was sealed off by health authorities following fears that it could be a cluster for COVID-19 infection after two people tested positive for the virus.

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A worker (2nd L) sprays disinfectant on a funeral worker (R) during a funeral for a victim of the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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A motorist goes through a disinfectant chamber before entering a local lockdown village, as a precautionary measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Banda Aceh, Indonesia.

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A man wearing a protective suit adjusts the gear of a colleague as a team of Russian specialists disinfect the Honegger nursing home where 35 people have died so far from coronavirus in Albino, Italy.

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A member of the Iraqi Civil Defence disinfects a street in Baghdad's eastern Sadr City suburb as the country ties to stem the spread of the COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

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