A look at the frontlines of the global coronvirus pandemic.
March 23, 2020
![Dr. Sonia Macieiewski (R) and Dr. Nita Patel, Director of Antibody discovery and Vaccine development, look at a sample of a respiratory virus at Novavax labs in Rockville, Maryland, one of the labs developing a vaccine for the coronavirus.](https://gdb.voanews.com/16e54dc9-addb-4657-9bf8-8c247e491a64_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Dr. Sonia Macieiewski (R) and Dr. Nita Patel, Director of Antibody discovery and Vaccine development, look at a sample of a respiratory virus at Novavax labs in Rockville, Maryland, one of the labs developing a vaccine for the coronavirus.
![Military members work at a military field hospital as the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, at the Ostra Sjukhuset hospital area in Gothenburg, Sweden.](https://gdb.voanews.com/2848a393-6f65-4ee8-bbad-ee1f408c1d86_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Military members work at a military field hospital as the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, at the Ostra Sjukhuset hospital area in Gothenburg, Sweden.
![A victim of the coronavirus is taken out of the Mulhouse civil hospital, eastern France.](https://gdb.voanews.com/fa3d2222-85d8-41fa-be96-8cd7673c4a8b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A victim of the coronavirus is taken out of the Mulhouse civil hospital, eastern France.
![A priest reads prayers from the book of funeral rites by the coffin of a deceased person in the cemetery of Grassobbio, Lombardy, in the absence of quarantined family members.](https://gdb.voanews.com/2730cd74-deb9-4c92-b553-b696de28c07b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A priest reads prayers from the book of funeral rites by the coffin of a deceased person in the cemetery of Grassobbio, Lombardy, in the absence of quarantined family members.