Photo Story: Responding to the coronavirus pandemic around the world

MSF intervention in care homes

Spain 2020 © Olmo Calvo/MSF

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are racing to respond to the coronavirus pandemic in the more than 70 countries where we run existing programs, while opening projects in new countries as the virus spreads.

Our response to COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, focuses on three main priorities: Supporting health authorities to provide care for patients with COVID-19, protecting people who are vulnerable and at-risk, and keeping essential medical services running.

From Belgium to Tanzania, here's how our teams are tackling the pandemic around the globe

AFRICA

South Sudan

COVID-19 Intervention in South Sudan
South Sudan 2020 © Gabriele François Casini/MSF

Cameroon

Visitors pass by the COVID-19 pre-screening, Bamenda's St Mary Soledad Hospital
Cameroon 2020 © Freida Nemkul

Tanzania

Covid-19 Preparation in Nduta Camp
Tanzania 2020 © Christa Koenig

AMERICAS

United States

New York City COVID-19 Response
United States 2020 © Michelle Mays/MSF

Brazil

COVID-19 São Paulo, Brazil
MSF evaluates and screens homeless people for COVID-19 in shelters in downtown São Paulo, where infection rates seem very high. Teams also visit shelters to provide health and basic IPC education to health professionals.
Brazil 2020 © Diogo Galvão

ASIA & PACIFIC

Pakistan

MSF Covid-19 Response in Pakistan
Pakistan 2020 © Nasir Ghafoor

Hong Kong

MSF has started an intervention for the outbreak of COVID-19
Hong Kong 2020 © MSF

EUROPE

France

Coronavirus: MSF's mobile clinic for vulnerable groups
France 2020 © Agnes Varraine-Leca/MSF

Italy

Intervention in Marche region
Italy 2020 © MSF/Vincenzo Livieri

Spain

MSF intervention in care homes
Two MSF staff disinfect beds in a nursing home for elderly residents in the Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes Residence in El Royo. MSF is accompanying volunteers from the fire brigade to disinfect spaces, establish staff and resident flow, and transfer patients from nursing homes and residences for the elderly throughout the Castilla y León region.
Spain 2020 © Olmo Calvo/MSF

Switzerland

COVID-19 response in Intensive care unit of HUG
Switzerland 2020 © Nora Teylouni/MSF

MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA

Iraq

IPC Training in Ibn El-Khateeb Hospital, Baghdad
Iraq 2020 © Nabil Salih

Syria

COVID-19 Prevention in Northwest Syria
Syria 2020 © Omar Haj Kadour/MSF