March 12, 2020

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, bump elbows as they attend a lunch with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

A student wears a face mask made with recyclable and biodegradable materials, as a form of protest against the shortage of face masks in pharmacies, in order to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus at Julio Cesar Turbay school in Soacha, Colombia.

A couple kisses at the Barcelona airport, Spain. President Donald Trump, who had downplayed the coronavirus for weeks, suddenly struck a different tone, announcing strict rules on restricting travel from much of Europe to begin this weekend.

Greek actress Xanthi Georgiou, center, lights the torch of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, held by Greek shooting Olympic champion Anna Korakaki, left, during the flame lighting ceremony at the closed Ancient Olympia site in southern Greece.

U.S. military guard of honor salute a coffin during a repatriation ceremony at Mandalay International Airport in central Myanmar. The U.S. military has repatriated what may be the remains of service personnel who were lost in action during World War II.

People coming from Venezuela with protective face masks as a precautionary measure to avoid contracting the new coronavirus, COVID-19, show hold their documents on the border at Simon Bolivar International Bridge, in Cucuta, Colombia.

Workers in protective suits disinfect Dolmabahce Palace due to coronavirus concerns in Istanbul, Turkey, March 11, 2020.

Foxton Harding, left and Adison Pucci, both 12, who attend Northshore Middle School, which has moved to online schooling for two weeks due to coronavirus concerns, work on school assignments at their home in Bothell, Washington, March 11, 2020.

Surfers and canoeists ride a Severn Bore surge wave, a natural phenomenen where a set of waves push through the Severn River estuary and upstream, being largest around the times of the equinoxes and just after full and new moons, in Newnham, Britain.

A bus is disinfected with ultraviolet rays as part of measures against of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Shanghai, China.