Around the world in photos as the coronavirus rages on

Aug. 25, 2020 at 1:49 pm Updated Aug. 25, 2020 at 1:49 pm

A health worker collects a nasal swab sample at a COVID-19 testing site for people coming into Ahmedabad, India, on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. India has the third-highest coronavirus caseload after the United States and Brazil, and the fourth-highest death toll in the world. (Ajit Solanki / The Associated Press)

Orthodox nuns carry herbs and flowers after visiting the tomb where the Virgin Mary is believed to be buried, just outside the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City. They were part of a procession in which her icon was brought from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, early Tuesday.(Maya Alleruzzo / The Associated Press)

Health workers administer free HPV vaccines to elementary school students as part of a free vaccination service for school children in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday. (Achmad Ibrahim / The Associated Press)

A drug store is covered with plastic sheet during lockdown in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Tuesday. Nepal is in a second lockdown after COVID-19 cases continued to rise in various parts of the nation, including the capital city Kathmandu. (Niranjan Shrestha / The Associated Press)

A man smokes a cigarette while watching union workers protest against staff shortages and a lack of personal protective equipment outside the National Health Laboratory Service in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Tuesday.(Themba Hadebe / The Associated Press)

A Palestinian man wears a face mask as he sits next to a closed shop on Tuesday during a 48-hour lockdown that was imposed after the discovery of the first coronavirus cases in the Gaza Strip. (Khalil Hamra / The Associated Press)

A medical worker administers COVID-19 tests at a drive-thru site for people returning from Croatia, Spain, Malta and Greece, at the San Carlo hospital, in Milan, Italy, Tuesday. People returning to Italy from Spain, Malta, Greece and Croatia must be tested within 48 hours of entering the country, after those countries recently experienced upticks in cases. (Luca Bruno / The Associated Press)

Logan Armstrong, a junior, works while sitting inside a painted circle in the grass during the first day of fall classes at Ohio State University on Tuesday. Courses this semester are being conducted as a mix of virtual and and in-person instruction. The circles were painted throughout the Oval, the campus’s central lawn, to allow students to maintain social distance while sitting outside. “I’m actually glad the school put these,” Armstrong says of the circles. “It shows they’re taking this seriously.” (Joshua A. Bickel / The Associated Press)

Tulsa mayoral candidate Greg Robinson receives his ballot to vote in Tuesday’s Oklahoma elections at the Gilcrease Hills clubhouse. (Mike Simons / The Associated Press)

Wearing a mask to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, postal worker Samantha Wims demonstrates during a “National Day of Action to Save the Post Office” outside the Flagler Station post office on Tuesday. The pandemic has pushed the Postal Service into a central role in the 2020 elections, with tens of millions of people expected to vote by mail rather than in person. At the same time, Trump has acknowledged he is withholding emergency aid from the service to make it harder to process mail-in ballots, as his election campaign legally challenges mail voting procedures in key states. (Wilfredo Lee / The Associated Press)

Reyna Najera, front, and her sister, Brenda, work on a laptops in a classroom in Newlon Elementary School on Tuesday. The school is one of 55 Discovery Link sites set up by Denver Public Schools, where students are participating in remote learning. (David Zalubowski / The Associated Press)

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy greets his wife, Tammy, and son Josh, after his 2021 budget address at SHI Stadium at Rutgers University, Tuesday, in Piscataway, NJ. (Noah K. Murray / The Associated Press)

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, wearing a face mask, attends a ceremony to launch the housing program “Green and Yellow House,” at the Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, on Tuesday. (Eraldo Peres / The Associated Press)

Kindergarteners line up to begin the first day of school at Goodwin Frazier Elementary School in New Braunfels, Texas, on Tuesday. (Mikala Compton / The Associated Press)

A boy poses for a photo in the hand of a four-and-a-half-ton bronze sculpture of a silverback mountain gorilla that has been placed in Bella Abzug Park in the Hudson Yards part of Manhattan on Tuesday. The sculpture, by artists Gillie and Marc Schattner is meant to bring awareness to the endangered animals. (Ted Shaffrey / The Associated Press)

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Li, followed by his entourage, walks inside the St. Regis Hotel, where he met with Canadian Foreign Minister François-Philippe Champagne, in Rome on Tuesday. Wang is at the start of a five-nation European tour, which also includes stops in France, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway. It is his first foreign trip since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. (Andrew Medichini / The Associated Press)

Spectators in the gallery on Tuesday in Boise, Idaho, silently indicate their support for speakers who were in favor of a resolution that would end the emergency coronavirus declaration that Gov. Brad Little signed in March. The resolution passed 48-20, although it is unclear whether the Senate will consider the measure, or whether the Legislature is allowed to address the topic because it wasn’t on the governor’s outline for the special session. (Katherine Jones / The Associated Press)

Naomi Osaka, of Japan, arrives for her match with Dayana Yastremska, of Ukraine, during the third round at the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, in New York. (Frank Franklin II / The Associated Press)

Employees wearing face masks carry a large puppet at the newly opened Children’s Museum in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. The museum features exhibition areas on science, medicine, toys and interactive gaming installations.(Andreea Alexandru / The Associated Press)

Workers and volunteers disinfect as a precaution against the coronavirus on a street in Goyang, South Korea, on Tuesday. South Korea is closing schools and switching back to remote learning in the greater capital area as the country counted its 12th straight day of triple-digit daily increases in coronavirus cases. (Ahn Young-joon / The Associated Press)

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Courtney Riffkin

Seattle Times photo staff

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