As per the John Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center, at the time of writing there have been 787,010 confirmed cases of coronavirus, with 37,829 deaths and 166,214 recoveries.
The United States has 164,610 confirmed cases thus far, the most of any country. Italy has currently suffered the most deaths of any country, with 11,591.
And in the US, urgently needed medical supplies were airlifted into New York on Sunday, the first of a number of flights over the next 30 days organized by the White House to help fight the coronavirus.
Watch one woman tell her granddad that she is engaged through the window during coronavirus social distancingLWhite House senior adviser Jared Kushner said of the initiative in a statement;
“At President Trump’s direction we formed an unprecedented public-private partnership to ensure that massive amounts of masks, gear and other PPE will be brought to the United States immediately to better equip our health care workers on the front lines and to better serve the American people,”
In hospitals and after shifts, doctors and nurses have been sharing selfies to illustrate just how incredibly tough the fight against coronavirus is on the front line.
Now, per the Mirror, Dr Sam Atallah has shared a heart-rending selfie with his wife, just before she was moved to a coronavirus isolation ward.
Atallah wrote;
"My wife: on a stretcher just before being transferred to the #COVID19 isolation ward
"Me: holding back tears
"Get well soon so we can celebrate our 21st wedding anniversary Friday
"Prayers"
Meanwhile, President Trump insisted that the US was in "very good shape" to provide enough ventilators for patients who need them during the peak of the infection - predicted to come in two weeks time.
"We have now 10 companies at least making the ventilators, and we say go ahead because, honestly, other countries - they'll never be able to do it," Mr Trump said during Monday's Coronavirus Task Force briefing from the White House.