Countries around the world disinfect to counter spread of coronavirus

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.