
A Week in World Photos
Overwhelmed hospitals, strictly enforced lockdowns, and creative approaches to social distancing.
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The Rev. Giuseppe Corbari, a priest in the village of Robbiano, Italy, near Milan, celebrates Mass in front of photos of his congregation attached to empty pews March 22. The priest appealed to his parishioners to send him selfies so he wouldn’t be alone when celebrating Mass.
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Employees practice social distancing while eating lunch on their break at the Dongfeng Honda auto plant in Wuhan, China, on March 23.
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French President Emmanuel Macron exits a military field hospital outside Emile Muller Hospital in Mulhouse, France, on March 25.
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Medical workers step outside Elmhurst Hospital Center in the Queens borough of New York City on March 26. Elmhurst reported 13 deaths from coronavirus in a 24-hour span earlier that week.
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A police officer chases street vendors in Kampala, Uganda, on March 26 after the president directed the public to shelter in place for 32 days to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
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A member of the military takes Communion provided by the International Auxiliary Chaplaincy Association at a checkpoint in Manila, Philippines, on March 25 as the city implements an enhanced community quarantine.
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A Serbian member of the military walks among beds set up inside a hall at the Belgrade Fair to accommodate people suffering from mild symptoms of the coronavirus March 24.
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People buy supplies at a vegetable market in Piliyandala, a suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka, on March 24 as authorities briefly lift a curfew to allow residents to stock up on essentials.
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A man walks through an alley of artificially frozen apple trees in an orchard outside the village of Miloslavov-Alzbetin Dvor, Slovakia, on March 25. Apple growers protect the blooms from freezing during the night’s low temperatures by icing them with over-tree sprinkler systems.
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A member of the U.S. Air Force exits a makeshift morgue outside Bellevue Hospital in New York City on March 25.
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A woman protests as a bulldozer clears out stalls in an informal market ahead of disinfecting the Medina neighborhood of Dakar, Senegal, on March 22.
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Gonzaga Yiga, a community chairman, makes an appeal to residents through a megaphone from the tallest building in Kampala, Uganda, on March 24. Yiga takes his perch every morning and evening to explain how the coronavirus spreads and how to avoid it.
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Members of the French Republican Guard patrol a footpath near La Ville-ès-Nonais in western France on March 26, following a strict lockdown across the country.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is garbed in protective gear as he visits a hospital in Moscow where coronavirus patients are being treated March 24.
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (top right) attends a videoconference with G-20 leaders March 26 to discuss the coronavirus pandemic.
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A worker disinfects a house in the central Iraqi city of Najaf on March 23.
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Displaced Syrian children read a poster outlining the seven steps to prevent the spread of the coronavirus at a camp for the internally displaced near the Turkish border in the rebel-held part of Aleppo on March 22.
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A member of the Sri Lanka Civil Security Force walks among packages of dry rations of food and commodities to be distributed at a warehouse near Colombo on March 25.
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A woman standing on her balcony reaches out to catch a rose delivered to her via a drone on Mother’s Day in the Lebanese coastal city of Jounieh, north of Beirut, on March 21. Three students came up with the drone service to celebrate the occasion while adhering to social-distancing restrictions.
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A child reaches up to touch the cherry blossoms at Ueno Park in Tokyo on March 21.
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People sit in Crystal Palace Park in south London on March 24.
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Moroccans confined at home in the Rabat district of Takadoum thank authorities from their windows as security forces and health workers instruct people to remain at home as a measure against the coronavirus pandemic on March 25.
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the daily briefing on the coronavirus at the White House on March 25.
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A parish priest prays over one of the coffins being stored in San Giuseppe’s church in Seriate, a northern Italian town, on March 26.
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Newly appointed Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovic (center left) poses with President Zuzana Caputova (center right) and government ministers after a swearing-in ceremony outside of the presidential palace in Bratislava on March 21.
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A medic takes a break in the emergency department of Louis Pasteur Hospital in Colmar, eastern France, on March 26.
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Riot police walk toward drivers and workers blocking a street in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on March 24 as they protest against “an absolute curfew” decreed by the government.
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A woman shouts at security personnel patrolling the streets in the Shaheen Bagh neighborhood of New Delhi on March 24 after they removed demonstrators who were protesting against a new citizenship law.
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French opera singer Stéphane Sénéchal performs the song “O Sole Mio” from his window in Paris on March 26.
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Overwhelmed hospitals, strictly enforced lockdowns, and creative approaches to social distancing.