COVID-19 El Salvador

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS A sacristan sanitizes the pews at the almost empty Cathedral in San Salvador, where authorities are restricting the concentration of people as a precautionary measure against the spread of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, on March 17, 2020. - The Salvadoran government increased prevention measures against COVID-19. (Photo by Yuri CORTEZ / AFP)
EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS A sacristan sanitizes the pews at the almost empty Cathedral in San Salvador, where authorities are restricting the concentration of people as a precautionary measure against the spread of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, on March 17, 2020. - The Salvadoran government increased prevention measures against COVID-19. (Photo by Yuri CORTEZ / AFP)
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A sacristan sanitizes the pews at the almost empty Cathedral in San Salvador, where authorities are restricting the concentration of people as a precautionary measure against the spread of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, on March 17, 2020. - The Salvadoran

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS A sacristan sanitizes the pews at the almost empty Cathedral in San Salvador,...

A municipal worker participates in a disinfection operation at eastern neighborhoods as a measure to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, in San Salvador on March 18, 2020. - The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, announced on Tuesday

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS A municipal worker participates in a disinfection operation at eastern neighborhoods as a...

Municipal workers participate in a disinfection operation at eastern neighborhoods as a measure to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, in San Salvador on March 18, 2020. - The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, announced on Tuesday t

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS Municipal workers participate in a disinfection operation at eastern neighborhoods as a measure...

A Salvadoran army officer supervises a public transportation bus to verify that it complies with the measures to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, during the national quarantine in San Salvador on March 23, 2020. - Confirmed cases of

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS A Salvadoran army officer supervises a public transportation bus to verify that it...

A member of the Salvadoran army points his lamp towards a vehicle traveling on a street to verify that it complies with the measures to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, during the national quarantine in San Salvador on March 23, 2020

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS A member of the Salvadoran army points his lamp towards a vehicle traveling...

A soldier stands guard at an empty bus stop after the government decreed new measures to prevent the spread of the new cortonavirus suspending the circulation of all public and private collective transport in San Salvador in May 7, 2020. (Photo by Yuri CO

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS A soldier stands guard at an empty bus stop after the government decreed...

A street vendor wearing a face mask poses outside the central market in San Salvador on May 6, 2020, amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Yuri CORTEZ / AFP)

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS A street vendor wearing a face mask poses outside the central market in...

A sick woman is being taken by family members in the back of a truck to a hospital in San Salvador, on April 29, 2020 during the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. - Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele announced on Tuesday the extension until May 16 of t

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS A sick woman is being taken by family members in the back of...

Health workers take a break on April 29, 2020 in an access to the historic centre of San Salvador, where only supermarkets and pharmacies are open during the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. - Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele announced on Tuesday th

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS Health workers take a break on April 29, 2020 in an access to...

A soldier stands guard as workers celebrate International Labour Day, or May Day, and show their support to the measures promoted by President Nayib Bukele against the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in San Salvador on May 1, 2020. - With stric

EL SALVADOR-MAY DAY-HEALTH-VIRUS A soldier stands guard as workers celebrate International Labour Day, or May...

A woman observes a caravan of workers celebrating International Labour Day, or May Day, and showing their support to the measures promoted by President Nayib Bukele against the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in San Salvador on May 1, 2020. - W

EL SALVADOR-MAY DAY-HEALTH-VIRUS A woman observes a caravan of workers celebrating International Labour Day, or...

Health workers of the San Rafael Hospital watch as a 16-year-old patient infected with the new coronavirus who was in intensive care and recovered, is released, in Santa Tecla, El Salvador, on April 30, 2020. - Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele announced

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS Health workers of the San Rafael Hospital watch as a 16-year-old patient infected...

A health worker pushes the wheelchair of a 16-year-old patient infected with the new coronavirus who was in intensive care and recovered, as she is released from the San Rafael Hospital in Santa Tecla, El Salvador, on April 30, 2020. - Salvadorean Preside

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS A health worker pushes the wheelchair of a 16-year-old patient infected with the...

A health worker pushes the wheelchair of a 16-year-old patient infected with the new coronavirus who was in intensive care and recovered, as she is released from the San Rafael Hospital in Santa Tecla, El Salvador, on April 30, 2020. - Salvadorean Preside

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS A health worker pushes the wheelchair of a 16-year-old patient infected with the...

A health worker prepares to conduct a COVID-19 coronavirus test at a walk-thru testing stationset up outside the Legislative Assembly building, to test employees and members of the legislature in San Salvador on April 24, 2020. (Photo by Yuri CORTEZ / AFP

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS A health worker prepares to conduct a COVID-19 coronavirus test at a walk-thru...

A health worker conducts a COVID-19 coronavirus test at a walk-thru testing station,set up outside the Legislative Assembly building, to test employees and members of the legislature in San Salvador on April 24, 2020. (Photo by Yuri CORTEZ / AFP)

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS A health worker conducts a COVID-19 coronavirus test at a walk-thru testing station,set...

A Salvadoran Health Ministry worker holds a package of bottles of HydroxyChloroquine pills to be distributed in hospitals in San Salvador on April 21, 2020, amid the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by Yuri CORTEZ / AFP)

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS A Salvadoran Health Ministry worker holds a package of bottles of HydroxyChloroquine pills...

A health worker checks the body temperature of a woman as she enters the Soyapango municipal market to buy food on April 21, 2020 in Soyapango, El Salvador. (Photo by Yuri CORTEZ / AFP)

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS A health worker checks the body temperature of a woman as she enters...

A woman wearing a surgical mask to prevent the spread of the coronavirus walks in front of a mural with the image of British actor and humorist Charles Chaplin, in Santa Tecla, El Salvador on April 13, 2020. - The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador exten

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS A woman wearing a surgical mask to prevent the spread of the coronavirus...

Medical personnel stand in front of the monument to the Divine Savior of the World which is illuminated in red as a tribute to the work they carry out during the pandemic of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, in San Salvador on April 7, 2020. - The President

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS Medical personnel stand in front of the monument to the Divine Savior of...

A man wears a face mask against the spread of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) as he waits to enter a bank to receive a $300 USD bonus -granted by the government for vulnerable people- in Santa Tecla, El Salvador on April 3, 2020. - Latin America is heading

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS A man wears a face mask against the spread of the new coronavirus...

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on April 01, 2020 shows (L-R and top to bottom) a soap bar, a bottle of alcohol gel, a surgical mask, a pair of latex gloves, a protective eye mask, and a respirator with special filters, products which became

COMBO-EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS-PRODUCTS (COMBO) This combination of pictures created on April 01, 2020 shows (L-R and...

Passengers of a public transport bus are disinfected against the spread of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) by a municipal worker before boarding the unit at a checkpoint in Panchimalco, El Salvador on April 2, 2020. - Confirmed coronavirus cases approached

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS Passengers of a public transport bus are disinfected against the spread of the...

A motorcyclist rides alongside motorists on a partially empty highway at sunset on March 23, 2020 in Santa Tecla, El Salvador. - Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in El Salvador increased to five, with two new positive cases reported by the Deputy Minister of H

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS A motorcyclist rides alongside motorists on a partially empty highway at sunset on...

General view of Jerusalen Avenue, one of the main access roads of the capital San Salvador, seen during the first day of national quarantine as a measure to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, on March 22, 2020. - El Salvador's president

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS General view of Jerusalen Avenue, one of the main access roads of the...

A soldier from the cavalry brigade stands guard in the tourist municipality of Puerto de La Libertad in El Salvador to ensure that food establishments and beaches remain closed as a preventive measure against the spread of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, o

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS A soldier from the cavalry brigade stands guard in the tourist municipality of...

Soldier from the cavalry brigade patrol the tourist municipality of Puerto de La Libertad in El Salvador to ensure that food establishments and beaches remain closed as a preventive measure against the spread of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, on March 21,

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS Soldier from the cavalry brigade patrol the tourist municipality of Puerto de La...

Soldier from the cavalry brigade patrol the tourist municipality of Puerto de La Libertad in El Salvador to ensure that food establishments and beaches remain closed as a preventive measure against the spread of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, on March 21,

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS Soldier from the cavalry brigade patrol the tourist municipality of Puerto de La...

A soldier from the cavalry brigade manages a machine gun during a patrol in the tourist municipality of Puerto de La Libertad in El Salvador to ensure that food establishments and beaches remain closed as a preventive measure against the spread of the new

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS A soldier from the cavalry brigade manages a machine gun during a patrol...

An intensivist nurse looks herself in the mirror as she fixes her level III biosafety suit before tending to patients infected with the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the intensive care unit of the San Rafael Hospital in Santa Tecla, La Libertad, just 10

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS An intensivist nurse looks herself in the mirror as she fixes her level...

An intensivist nurse looks herself in the mirror as she fixes her level III biosafety suit before tending to patients infected with the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the intensive care unit of the San Rafael Hospital in Santa Tecla, La Libertad, just 10

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS An intensivist nurse looks herself in the mirror as she fixes her level...

A doctor wearing a level III biosecurity suit and a mask known as a nun's head goes to the intensive care unit to tend to patients infected with the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, at the San Rafael Hospital in Santa Tecla, La Libertad, just 10 km from the S

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS A doctor wearing a level III biosecurity suit and a mask known as...

A poster reading part of a psalm "My flesh and my spirit may fail, but God remains the strength of my heart" is seen on a wall as an intensivist nurse in a level III biosafety suit gets ready to tend to patients infected with the novel coronavirus, COVID-

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS A poster reading part of a psalm "My flesh and my spirit may...

An intensivist nurse prepares medicine and saline solution to be applied to patients infected with the novel coronavirus COVID-19, in the intensive care unit of the San Rafael Hospital in Santa Tecla, La Libertad, just 10 km from the Salvadorean capital S

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS An intensivist nurse prepares medicine and saline solution to be applied to patients...

A patient infected with the novel coronavirus COVID-19 remains connected to artificial respiration devices while receiving intravenous medications, in the intensive care unit of the San Rafael Hospital in Santa Tecla, La Libertad, just 10 km from the Salv

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS A patient infected with the novel coronavirus COVID-19 remains connected to artificial respiration...

A doctor reviews a patient infected with the novel coronavirus COVID-19 while he remains connected to artificial respiration devices and receives intravenous medications, in the intensive care unit of the San Rafael Hospital in Santa Tecla, La Libertad, j

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS A doctor reviews a patient infected with the novel coronavirus COVID-19 while he...

Doctors and nurses review a patient infected with the novel coronavirus COVID-19 while he remains connected to artificial respiration devices and receives intravenous medications, in the intensive care unit of the San Rafael Hospital in Santa Tecla, La Li

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS Doctors and nurses review a patient infected with the novel coronavirus COVID-19 while...

A patient suspected of being infected with the novel coronavirus COVID-19 receives medical and artificial respiration treatment at the San Rafael Hospital in Santa Tecla, La Libertad, just 10 km from the Salvadorean capital San Salvador, on May 16, 2020.

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS A patient suspected of being infected with the novel coronavirus COVID-19 receives medical...

A woman walks by a house displaying a white cloth -to demand humanitarian aid- during the home quarantine against the spread of the novel COVID-19 coronavirus, at Concepcion neighborhood in San Salvador on May 23, 2020. - El Salvador's Supreme Court of Ju

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS A woman walks by a house displaying a white cloth -to demand humanitarian...

A man stands outside his house, flanked by white cloths displayed to demand humanitarian aid during the home quarantine against the spread of the novel COVID-19 coronavirus, at Concepcion neighborhood in San Salvador on May 23, 2020. - El Salvador's Supre

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS A man stands outside his house, flanked by white cloths displayed to demand...

Municipal workers load packages with food on a truck for its distribution in communities in different municipalities of the capital in the framework of the special quarantine decreed by the government to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, COVID-19

EL SALVADOR-HELTH-VIRUS-FOOD AID Municipal workers load packages with food on a truck for its distribution...

Municipal workers load packages with food on a truck for its distribution in communities in different municipalities of the capital in the framework of the special quarantine decreed by the government to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, COVID-19

EL SALVADOR-HELTH-VIRUS-FOOD AID Municipal workers load packages with food on a truck for its distribution...

A health worker dressed in a biosecurity suit disinfects the corpse of a 75-year-old man who died -allegedly victim of COVID-19- at the door of his home while asking for help in the La Fosa Community in San Salvador on 24 June, 2020. - The government of E

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS-VICTIM A health worker dressed in a biosecurity suit disinfects the corpse of a...

Funeral workers dressed in biosafety suits carry the body of a 75-year-old man who died -allegedly victim of COVID-19- at the door of his home while asking for help, in the La Fosa Community in San Salvador on 24 June, 2020. - The government of El Salvado

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS-VICTIM Funeral workers dressed in biosafety suits carry the body of a 75-year-old man...

Funeral workers dressed in biosafety suits carry the body of a 75-year-old man who died -allegedly victim of COVID-19- at the door of his home while asking for help, in the La Fosa Community in San Salvador on 24 June, 2020. - The government of El Salvado

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS-VICTIM Funeral workers dressed in biosafety suits carry the body of a 75-year-old man...

Health workers wearing biosecurity suits carry the corpse of a member of the armed forces who died after a coughing attack inside a taxi while driving to a hospital for medical attention at the southern bus terminal in San Marcos, south of San Salvador on

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS-VICTIM Health workers wearing biosecurity suits carry the corpse of a member of the...

Gravediggers from the Santa Tecla municipal cemetery get ready before the burial of a victim of COVID-19 coronavirus on June 22, 2020, in Santa Tecla, El Salvador. - The government of El Salvador inaugurated on the eve an exclusive hospital for COVID-19 p

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS-FUNERAL Gravediggers from the Santa Tecla municipal cemetery get ready before the burial of...

Relatives of a COVID-19 victim carry a cross to place on the grave of their loved one, at the municipal cemetery of Santa Tecla, El Salvador, on June 22, 2020. - The government of El Salvador inaugurated on the eve an exclusive hospital for COVID-19 patie

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS-FUNERAL Relatives of a COVID-19 victim carry a cross to place on the grave...

A gravedigger from the municipal cemetery of Santa Tecla wears a jersey from Spain's football club Barcelona player Argentine star Lionel Messi, while burying a victim of COVID-19 coronavirus on June 22, 2020, in Santa Tecla, El Salvador. - The government

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS-FUNERAL A gravedigger from the municipal cemetery of Santa Tecla wears a jersey from...

Gravediggers of the Santa Tecla municipal cemetery wearing biosafety suits carry the coffin of a victim of COVID-19 coronavirus on June 22, 2020, in Santa Tecla, El Salvador. - The government of El Salvador inaugurated on the eve an exclusive hospital for

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS-FUNERAL Gravediggers of the Santa Tecla municipal cemetery wearing biosafety suits carry the coffin...

Gravediggers of the Santa Tecla municipal cemetery wearing biosafety suits carry the coffin of a victim of COVID-19 coronavirus on June 22, 2020, in Santa Tecla, El Salvador. - The government of El Salvador inaugurated on the eve an exclusive hospital for

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS-FUNERAL Gravediggers of the Santa Tecla municipal cemetery wearing biosafety suits carry the coffin...

Gravediggers of the Santa Tecla municipal cemetery wearing biosafety suits carry the coffin of a victim of COVID-19 coronavirus on June 22, 2020, in Santa Tecla, El Salvador. - The government of El Salvador inaugurated on the eve an exclusive hospital for

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS-FUNERAL Gravediggers of the Santa Tecla municipal cemetery wearing biosafety suits carry the coffin...

A group of gravediggers work at the Santa Tecla municipal cemetery wearing biosafety suits on June 22, 2020, in Santa Tecla, El Salvador. - The government of El Salvador inaugurated on the eve an exclusive hospital for COVID-19 patients, with the aim of d

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS-FUNERAL A group of gravediggers work at the Santa Tecla municipal cemetery wearing biosafety...

A gravedigger disinfects his partner after working on the burial of several victims of the new COVID-19 in the municipal cemetery on June 22, 2020, in Santa Tecla, El Salvador. - The government of El Salvador inaugurated on the eve an exclusive hospital f

EL SALVADOR-HEALTH-VIRUS-FUNERAL A gravedigger disinfects his partner after working on the burial of several victims...

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