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    Masked while shopping, protesting, cooling off: Images from Wednesday, July 22, 2022

    July 22, 2020 at 2:02 pm Updated July 22, 2020 at 2:02 pm
    In Lima, Peru, commuters wearing face masks and shields ride a public bus on July 22, 2020. The wearing of face masks in public places is mandatory in Peru. (Rodrigo Abd / The Associated Press)
    People shop in a store on a pedestrian shopping street in Beijing, on Wednesday, July 22, 2020. Numbers of cases in China’s latest virus outbreak continued to fall Wednesday, with several new cases in the northwestern region of Xinjiang. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
    Israeli police scuffle with demonstrators during a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his residence in Jerusalem, early Wednesday, July 22, 2020. Protesters demanded that the embattled leader resign as he faces a trial on corruption charges and grapples with a deepening coronavirus crisis. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
    In Hong Kong, a man sits in the sun at a park on Wednesday, July 22, 2020. Hong Kong is facing a “critical stage” in its fight against COVID-19, and the government is extending anti-virus measures, Health Secretary Sophia Chan said Wednesday. Hong Kong has made it mandatory to wear masks on public transport, in indoor areas and passenger terminals. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
    Visitors wearing face masks take pictures at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday, July 22, 2020. The museum reopened Wednesday after having been closed for two months due to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    In Prayagraj, India, health workers take a break at the Tej Bahadur Sapru Hospital on Wednesday, July 22, 2020. With a surge in coronavirus cases in the past few weeks, state governments in India have been ordering focused lockdowns in high-risk areas to slow down the spread of infections. (Rajesh Kumar Singh / The Associated Press)
    U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, arrives Wednesday, July 22, 2020, for a House Committee on Homeland Security meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. The meeting is on the national response to the coronavirus pandemic. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times via AP, Pool)
    Leola Reeves places a red flag in the ground Tuesday, July 21, 2020, near Chesterley Park in Yakima, Wash. Each red flag represents a Yakima County resident who tested positive for COVID-19 from mid-March. (Amanda Ray / Yakima Herald-Republic via AP)
    Tourists wearing face masks get off the train from the top of La Rhune, a Basque mountain, in Sare, southwestern France, on Wednesday, July 22, 2020. (Bob Edme / The Associated Press)
    A Garland Independent School District custodian wipes down tables in the cafeteria at Stephens Elementary School in Rowlett, Texas, on Wednesday, July 22, 2020. Texas on Friday gave public schools permission to keep campuses closed for more than 5 million students well into the fall as the state scrambles to contain one of the largest resurgences of the coronavirus in the country. (LM Otero / The Associated Press)
    In Belgrade, Serbia, a man wearing a face mask cools off on a sandbank in the Danube River on  Wednesday, July 22, 2020. Health authorities are warning that Serbian hospitals are almost full due to the latest virus surge. (Darko Vojinovic / The Associated Press)
    John Burkhardt, senior vice president of drug safety R&D and head of the Pfizer Groton site, speaks at a news conference at Pfizer Groton on the companies’ research to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, on Wednesday, July 22, 2020, in Groton, Conn.  The federal government has agreed to pay nearly $2 billion for 100 million doses of a potential COVID-19 vaccine being developed by the U.S. drugmaker and its German partner BioNTech. (Stew Milne / The Associated Press)
    A policeman stops traffic on a road in Cartojani, Romania, on Wednesday, July 22, 2020, after the village was quarantined due to COVID-19 infections. Romania has for the first time confirmed over 1,000 new daily cases of the coronavirus as a southern village was about to enter a two-week quarantine because of the high number of cases reported there. (Nicolae Dumitrache / The Associated Press)
    In La Paz, Bolivia, Herminia Carpio walks away from the body of her brother Guillermo, covered by a slim mattress outside the General Hospital, before his body is taken away by a funeral home on Wednesday, July 22, 2020. Carpio said her 58-year-old brother died the previous afternoon, and according to the hospital he died of COVID-19. Hospitals are full and short of staff, closing their gates and hanging out signs that say: “There is no space.” (Juan Karita / The Associated Press)
    In Turin, Italy, a man passes through an anti COVID-19 automatic gate meant to speed up checks at the entrance of the Grande Torino stadium. The Italian Serie A soccer match between Torino and Verona is taking place Wednesday, July 22, 2020. The gate, dubbed “Feel Safe,” has a face recognition scanner which also reads the body temperature before spraying a disinfectant on match goers. The device is being tested but the match is still taking place in a closed stadium. (Marco Alpozzi / The Associated Press)
    In Harare, Zimbabwe, an open truck carries farmers wearing face masks on the first day of the nationwide curfew, Wednesday, July, 22, 2020. President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced a dusk-to-dawn curfew, banned political, religious and social gatherings and reduced business operating hours as part of measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus. (Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi / The Associated Press)
    In Toronto, a woman walks past a mural that pays tribute to health-care workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Wednesday, July 22, 2020. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
    In Baghdad, people cool off from the summer heat under an open-air shower on a street on Wednesday, July 22, 2020. The temperature reached  116 degrees. (Hadi Mizban / The Associated Press)
    In Raleigh, N.C., plastic walls separate individual treadmill stations in the Carmichael Complex during a media tour Wednesday, July 22, 2020, of North Carolina State University’s COVID-19 preparations for the fall semester. (Gerry Broome / The Associated Press)
    In Kathmandu, Nepal, an elderly man rests at a temple as pigeons fly at Basantapur Durbar Square on Wednesday, July 22, 2020. Nepal’s government has ended a lockdown 120 days after it was imposed to control the spread of coronavirus. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
    By
    Courtney Riffkin
    Seattle Times photo staff

    Courtney Riffkin: 206-464-2203 or criffkin@seattletimes.com; on Twitter: @SeaTimesPhoto.

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