China Daily via Reuters
Worker disinfects playground equipment inside a kindergarten as students' returning has been delayed due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, in China.
- As thousands of coronavirus cases are being recorded across the world, governments are trying everything to clamp down on its rapid spread.
- China has borne the brunt of the epidemic, and has the most extreme response. Other countries have taken varying approaches to prevention and containment.
- In the US, the Trump administration has been criticized for the level of seriousness with which it has treated the virus.
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As the number of global coronavirus cases approaches 95,000, the world is struggling to cope with its spread.
From Saudi Arabia to Japan and France, governments have taken a range of measures to stop the spread of the virus as quickly as possible.
Travel restrictions, limited quarantines and banning mass gatherings are at the milder end of the responses employed.
On the extremes, there have been total lockdowns of cities, and threats to implement the death penalty on those who deliberately hamper the work of public health officials.