Heroic medical staff on front line of global epidemic battle
As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases around the world soared past one million, medical staff everywhere are working around the clock to save lives.

Nurses wearing masks and safety equipment embrace on March 15 at the Cremona hospital, southeast of Milan, in Italy.

Emergency medical technicians lift a patient into an ambulance in New York City on March 24.

A member of the medical staff gives a victory sign to the media at the window of the Dubrava hospital on March 15 in Croatia.

Medical personnel treat patients suffering from COVID-19 in an intensive care unit at MontLegia CHC clinic in Liege, Belgium, on March 26.

A medical staff member checks a ventilator at an intensive care unit in a newly inaugurated hospital in Chennai, India, on March 27.

Medical staff test a woman for COVID-19 at a drive-thru testing center at Vibhavadi Hospital in Bangkok on March 25.

Medical staff use a trolley to move a patient toward a medical helicopter at The Emile Muller Hospital in Mulhouse, eastern France, on March 22, as patients are evacuated to another hospital facility.

Medical staff from Fundacion Jimenez Diaz hospital hold a banner reading "Thank you all" as neighbours applaud from their balconies in support of health care workers in Madrid, Spain, on March 30.

French doctors take a selfie with a German doctor (in blue) in the corridor of an isolation ward at the university hospital of Essen, western Germany, on Friday. Two patients from France infected with COVID-19 were to be transported to the hospital for further treatment.

A medical worker in protective gear tends to a patient on March 24 at an intensive care unit for COVID-19 cases at Casal Palocco hospital near Rome.

A medical officer checks devices at an emergency hospital handling coronavirus patients at Kemayoran Athletes Village, in Jakarta, Indonesia on March 23.