Photos Of The Week #11
Revelers dance as they celebrate Holi, the spring festival of colors, in Allahabad, India. (AFP/Sanjay Kanojia)
Two men wearing face masks as a precautionary measure against the coronavirus chat while standing near Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong on March 13. (AFP/Anthony Wallace)
The Grand Princess cruise ship carrying passengers who have tested positive for coronavirus passes the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. (Reuters/Kate Munsch)
A migrant from Eritrea carries her child in a village near the Turkish-Greek border in Edirne Province, Turkey. (Reuters/Murad Sezer)
A spectator at Gaddafi Stadium sits alone in the stands with an umbrella as heavy rain falls in Lahore. Pakistan abandoned the Pakistan Super League match between title defender Quetta Gladiators and Multan Sultans on March 11. (AP/K.M. Chaudhry)
Residents wearing face masks as a preventive measure against the spread of the coronavirus sit in a passenger truck on a street in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. (AFP/Aamir Qureshi)
Muslim worshippers circumambulate the sacred Kaaba in Mecca's Grand Mosque, Islam's holiest site, on March 13. (AFP)
A colorful bazaar in Almaty, Kazakhstan. (Reuters/Pavel Mikheyev)
A Syrian worker walks at a primitive oil refinery in the countryside in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh Province near the Turkish border. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)
A worker wearing a protective suit uses a fogger to disinfect a tram in Prague on March 12. The Czech Republic has almost 100 confirmed cases of the coronavirus. (AP/Petr David Josek)
A dog passes in front of an almost empty restaurant in Rome's Trastevere area after a decree that ordered the whole of Italy on lockdown in an effort to stem the coronavirus. (Reuters/Guglielmo Mangiapane)
A protester holds a placard reading "This Is The Legitimization Of The Usurpation Of Authority" in a demonstration against changes to presidential term limits near the Kremlin. Russian President Vladimir Putin laid out a path on March 10 to stay in power beyond 2024, as lawmakers approved sweeping reforms to the constitution. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
A displaced Syrian girl is pictured in a former jail turned into a makeshift shelter in the northwestern city of Idlib. (AFP/Aaref Watad)
Mourners wearing face masks and gloves pray over the body of a former official in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Farzad Tazari, who died March 9 after being infected with the new coronavirus, at the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery just outside Tehran. (AP/Mahmood Hosseini/Tasnim News Agency)
A migrant flashes a victory sign as he rides with others in a cart near the Turkish-Greek border. Thousands of migrants headed for Turkey's land border with Greece after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government said last week that it would no longer prevent migrants and refugees from crossing over to European Union territory. (AP/Darko Bandic)
Police officers block activists during a rally held to support women's rights and to protest against violence toward women on International Women's Day in Baku, Azerbaijan, on March 8. (Reuters/Aziz Karimov)
A boy walks among pairs of shoes next to the Moria camp for refugees and migrants on the island of Lesbos, Greece. (Reuters/Elias Marcou)
Locals apply colored powder on each other during Holi festival celebrations in Kolkata, India. (epa-EFE/Piyal Adhikary)
Medical staff celebrate after all patients were discharged at a temporary hospital set up to treat people with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China. (STR/AFP)
A woman is silhouetted as she interprets for deaf and mute participants at the Women's March in Karachi, Pakistan. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)