Photos Of The Week #13
A worker wearing a protective face mask during the coronavirus outbreak attaches prayer petitions to lotus lanterns in preparation for the upcoming birthday of Buddha at a temple in Seoul. (Reuters/Kim Hong-ji)
Pope Francis delivers an extraordinary Urbi et Orbi blessing -- normally given only at Christmas and Easter -- from an empty St. Peter's Square as a response to the global coronavirus pandemic, at the Vatican on March 27. (Reuters/Vatican Media)
Horses from Cirkus Alex stand in a temporary enclosure in Stopini, Latvia. The circus, from the Czech Republic, has been stuck in Latvia due to the closure of borders to limit the spread of the coronavirus. (AFP/Gints Ivuskans)
A man rests on a bench after feeding pigeons in Bucharest. (Reuters/Octav Ganea)
Volunteers take a break as they set up beds inside the Novi Sad Fair to accommodate people who are suffering mild symptoms of COVID-19 in Novi Sad, Serbia. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)
People enjoy a meal inside a tent to protect themselves from the coronavirus at a park in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China. (Reuters/China Daily)
A picture taken with a drone shows Ukrainian citizens waiting in line at the Polish-Ukrainian border as they seek to go home during the coronavirus pandemic in Korczowa on March 27. (epa-EFE/Darek Delmanowicz)
An employee carries a bag of flour at a bakery in the city of Nevinnomyssk in Russia's Stavropol region on March 27. (Reuters/Eduard Komiyenko)
A man wearing a face mask feeds pigeons on an empty street in Kolkata, India, during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown amid a coronavirus outbreak (AFP/Dibyangshu Sarkar)
An aerial view of the Sheikh Zayed Road, which lies practically empty following a coronavirus outbreak, in Dubai on March 26. (Reuters/Satish Kumar)
Andrei Vakhrushev stands at the entrance to his pyramid, which he built on the grounds of his rural house in the Russian village of Istinka, outside St. Petersburg. (AP/Dmitri Lovetsky)
A Palestinian couple wear face masks amid the COVID-19 epidemic during a photoshoot before their wedding ceremony in the Gaza Strip. (AFP/Said Khatib)
Rescue workers try to extinguish a fire following the explosion of a tanker carrying liquefied petroleum gas in Lahore, Pakistan, on March 25. (AP/K.M. Chaudhry)
A person in protective clothing walks through a temporary 2,000-bed hospital for COVID-19 patients set up by the Iranian Army at an international exhibition center in Tehran. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Wearing a yellow protective suit, Russian President Vladimir Putin visits a hospital for patients with suspected COVID-19 disease in Moscow on March 24. (epa-EFE/Alexei Druzhin)
A woman enjoys the snow-covered landscape following a blizzard near New York City on March 24. (AP/Robert F. Bukaty)
A picture taken with a drone shows cars driving through a snow-covered forest near Pecs, Hungary. (epa-EFE/Tamas Saki)
A man drinks a bottle of wine while watching the sunset from Elysian Park in the U.S. city of Los Angeles. (epa-EFE/Etienne Laurent)
A man walks down stairs near an empty Charles Bridge as the spread of the coronavirus has caused Prague to be on a virtual lockdown. (Reuters/David W Cerny)
A destroyed car is seen following an earthquake in Zagreb, Croatia, on March 22. At least one person -- a 15-year-old girl -- was killed and dozens injured. (Reuters/Antonio Bronic)
A woman wearing a protective mask stands beside a fellow pedestrian dressed in a plague-doctor's mask in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. (epa-EFE/Pavlo Palamarchuk)
A laborer sits in his wheelbarrow as he waits for customers in the Afghan capital, Kabul. (AP/Rahmat Gul)
The new Slovak cabinet with President Zuzana Caputova in the center. (epa-EFE)
A man walks during a snowfall in Kyiv. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)