ITALY

ITALY

A medical worker takes a patients swab for COVID-19 testing in Rome on April 8

POLAND

The facade of the Royal Castle in Warsaw is lit up in blue on April 7 to support medical workers fighting to save lives amid the spread of the novel coronavirus

UNITED KINGDOM

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab（center） arrives at 10 Downing Street in London， the government headquarters， for a meeting on April 7. He was asked to deputize for Prime Minister Boris Johnson， who was put under intensive hospital care after his COVID-19 symptoms worsened

JAPAN

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe （second right） declares in Tokyo a month-long state of emergency for seven prefectures in a bid to curb the COVID-19 outbreak on April 7

FIJI

A villager shows his destroyed house in Navua on April 8. Severe tropical cyclone Harold battered Fiji that day， causing extensive damage and flooding across the island nation

UNITED STATES

A COVID-19 checkpoint in New York on April 8. The U.S. has the largest number of confirmed cases， exceeding 400，000 by that day