Photos Of The Week #16
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka (center) and NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan (left) and Jessica Meir are seen inside the Soyuz MS-15 capsule shortly after landing in a remote area of Kazakhstan on April 17. (AFP/Andrei Shelepin/GCTC/Russian Space Agency Roscosmos)
Workers wait to receive relief money as authorities suspended nationwide railway service as a preventive measure against the outbreak of the coronavirus in Quetta, Pakistan. (AP/Arshad Butt)
A man rides a bike on a deserted street in central Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin extended the current nationwide lockdown with stay-at-home orders until the end of April in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. (epa-EFE/Yuri Kochetkov)
An exchanged prisoner sits in a bus during a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia-backed separatists near Horlivka in the Donetsk region on April 16. (epa-EFE/Yevgen Honcharenko)
A man sorts tomatoes at a vegetable market in Larkana, Pakistan. (epa-EFE/Waqar Hussnain)
A medical staffer writes a note to communicate with a coronavirus patient in the intensive-care unit of Bassini Hospital in Cinisello Balsamo, near Milan, Italy. (AP/Claudio Furlan/LaPresse)
A nun wearing a protective face mask walks in a street in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. (epa-EFE/Fehim Demir)
An aerial picture shows workers unloading watermelons from boats in the Burigonga River in Dhaka on April 17. (AFP/Munir Uz)
A Russian serviceman wearing a protective suit sprays disinfectant on a monument to the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin while sanitizing an industrial area in St. Petersburg. (AFP/Olga Maltseva)
A woman walks on a deserted street past the Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery in downtown Moscow. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
A man being tested for the coronavirus reacts as a medical worker takes a swab sample in Wuhan, China. (AFP/Hector Retamal)
A man eats a charity meal at the Savage Hangar, a feeding point run by the Russian Orthodox Church's "Mercy" social service in Moscow. (epa-EFE/Sergei Chirikov)
A laborer sorts raw mangoes at a fruit market during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India. (AFP/Noah Seelam)
A woman sits on a bench in an empty subway station in Prague. (AFP/Michal Cizek)
A clown plays with soap bubbles in front of the windows of a children's clinic in Leipzig, Germany, on April 15. (AP/Hendrik Schmidt)
Russian law enforcement officers wearing raincoats and protective masks patrol the streets amid the coronavirus outbreak in Moscow. (Moscow News Agency-Reuters/Sofiya Sandurskaya)
A boy feeds pigeons in Karachi, Pakistan, on April 14. (epa-EFE/Rehan Khan)
A man plays with his dogs on a street in central Moscow. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
An Afghan man wearing a protective face mask walks past a wall painted with an image of Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. envoy for peace in Afghanistan, and Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the leader of the Taliban delegation, in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
Flower shop employees cut unsold flowers in St. Petersburg, Russia. (AP/Dmitry Lovetsky)
A volunteer disinfects the Karachi Press Club building in an effort to contain the outbreak of the coronavirus, in Karachi, Pakistan. (AP/Fareed Khan)
A Romanian Orthodox priest with a face mask distributes willow branches on Easter Sunday after a religious service held behind closed doors due to the social-distancing rules amid the spread of the coronavirus. (AFP/Daniel Mihailescu)
Municipal vehicles spray disinfectant on the deserted streets of central Moscow on April 12 during a strict lockdown in Russia to stop the spread of the coronavirus. (AFP/Yury Kadobnov)
A parishioner wears a face mask as she attends a drive-in Easter Mass at the New Harvest Church in Norwalk, south of Los Angeles. (epa-EFE/Etienne Laurent)
The Bishop of Tenerife, Bernardo Alvarez, holds an online Easter Saturday Mass at the Cathedral of San Cristobal de La Laguna in Tenerife, Spain. (epa-EFE/Ramon De La Rocha)
The fire burning in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, close to the site of the 1986 nuclear accident, has raised radiation levels in the area. (AFP/Volodymyr Shuvayev)