Photos as coronavirus grips the world, April 30: Mourning, testing, and yearning for a return to normalcy

Originally published April 30, 2020 at 12:49 pm

Relatives of a person who died from the new coronavirus mourn at the gate of a cemetery in the city of Ghaemshahr, in north of Iran, Wednesday, April 29, 2020. (Ebrahim Noroozi / The Associated Press)

Buddhist monks wearing face masks to help protect against the spread of the coronavirus pray to celebrate the Buddha’s birthday at the Gwanghwamun Plaza in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 30, 2020. (Ahn Young-joon / The Associated Press)

Susan Kenney, of Ware, Mass., who lost her father to the coronavirus, stands for a portrait on the front porch of her home, Thursday, April 30, 2020, in Ware. Her father, Air Force veteran Charles Lowell, was a resident at the state-run Holyoke Soldiers’ Home. While the death toll at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home continues to climb, federal officials are investigating whether residents were denied proper medical care, and the state’s top prosecutor is deciding whether to bring legal action. (Steven Senne / The Associated Press)

A stray dog sits on a handcart as daily wage laborers walk past a closed wholesale market in the old quarters of New Delhi, India, during a nationwide lockdown April 30, 2020. India says it has achieved tremendous gains in curbing the coronavirus. The government recently allowed reopening of neighborhood shops in cities and towns and resumption of manufacturing and farming activity in rural areas to help millions of poor people who lost work. (Manish Swarup / The Associated Press)

in the suburbs of Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, April 30, Hameeda Begum harvests crops with her son due to unavailability of daily wage laborers during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown. (B.K. Bangash / The Associated Press)

A nurse assists a COVID-19 patient at an intensive care unit in Muehldorf am Inn, Germany. The whole hospital was converted for the treatment of coronavirus patients. (Matthias Schrader / The Associated Press)

Members of a youth group in Star Wars costumes entertain locals along a road in Malabon, Metro Manila, Philippines, Thursday. The youth group walks along streets to give residents some form of entertainment as they endure the continued community quarantine and to remind them to stay at home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. (Aaron Favila / The Associated Press)

A volunteer directs two men toward a medical tent where they will be tested for COVID-19, as well as HIV and Tuberculosis, in downtown Johannesburg Thursday. Thousands in South Africa are being tested in an effort to derail the spread of coronavirus. South Africa will begin easing its strict lockdown measures on May 1, although the confirmed number of cases in the country continues to increase. (Jerome Delay / The Associated Press)

A medical worker takes a nasal swab of a Kashmiri girl at a red zone area in Srinagar, part of ndian-controlled Kashmir, Thursday. (Mukhtar Khan / The Associated Press)

Protesters in Israel hold Israeli flags and shout slogans during a protest by supporters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in front of Israel’s Supreme Court in Jerusalem, Thursday, April 30, 2020. Dozens of protesters rallied outside Israel’s Supreme Court on Thursday against petitions to disqualify Benjamin Netanyahu from serving as prime minister while facing criminal indictments. (Ariel Schalit / The Associated Press)

Members of the National Youth Service in Nairobi, Kenya, walk past an informational mural about the new coronavirus with words in Swahili reading, “Stop corona in the neighborhood,” painted by graffiti artists from the Mathare Roots youth group, on Thursday. (Brian Inganga / The Associated Press)

A woman wears a face mask near an apartment in downtown Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Thursday. The Malaysian government issued a restricted movement order to the public for the rest of the month to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus. (Vincent Thian / The Associated Press)

Workers keep their distance during a break from producing medical ventilators at AMRC Cymru in North Wales as they help the UK in the fight against coronavirus Thursday. Working as part of the Ventilator Challenge UK consortium, over 550 Airbus and Siemens employees at the site are working around the clock to produce at least 15,000 ventilators for the National Health Service, making this location the single largest site as part of the consortium (Jon Super / The Associated Press)

Protesters rally at the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing on Thursday. Hoisting American flags and handmade signs, protesters marched to the capitol to denounce Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-home order and business restrictions while lawmakers met to consider extending her emergency declaration hours before as set to expire. (Paul Sancya / The Associated Press)

A bus crew member in protective gear waits near baggage from the Carnival Splendor cruise ship after it arrived at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday. Hundreds of Indonesians working on the cruise ship were tested for the coronavirus and will be quarantined for 14 days. (Dita Alangkara / The Associated Press)

Adul Yothasmutr, left, secretary of the Bang Aw mosque, watches as volunteers prepare food at the mosque premises in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday. During the month of Ramadan, Muslims customarily gather at the mosque to pray and to break fast. Since most mosques remain closed to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus, Bang Aw mosque volunteers have been cooking meals for 150 families in the neighborhood daily, and packing them into boxes for collection. (Gemunu Amarasinghe / The Associated Press)

Veronica Vazquez distributes pet food at a drive-through pet food bank held by the Miami-Dade County Animal Services Department at the Pet Adoption and Protection Center on Thursday in Doral, Fla. (Lynne Sladky / The Associated Press)

Workers unload pallets stacked with boxes of prepared meals that will be distributed to people in need, Thursday, April 30, 2020, at a temporary food distribution center in New York. (Mary Altaffer / The Associated Press)

People rest and exercise along the seafront next to Barra de Tijuca beach, as Fernando Ferreira, right, speaks during an interview in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday. The retired dentist and lawyer recommended reading the Bible and Albert Camus’ “The Plague,” citing them as evidence pandemics have always happened to some degree, and said restrictions on commerce are absurd. (Silvia Izquierdo / The Associated Press)

A shopper walks past a store window with mannequins modeling casual wear and protective face masks at the Apumanque shopping center in Las Condes neighborhood of Santiago, Chile, on Thursday. As Chilean authorities look to ease quarantine measures, the well-known shopping mall in the upscale neighborhood will open to the public for the first time since lockdown began more than one month ago. (Esteban Felix / The Associated Press)

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Courtney Riffkin

Seattle Times photo staff

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