Photos: As coronavirus spreads, people around the globe hunker down — or venture out nervously

Originally published March 26, 2020 at 12:42 pmUpdated March 26, 2020 at 12:49 pm

A woman wearing a disposable mask to protect against coronavirus stands outside the entrance of a supermarket in Soweto, South Africa, Thursday, March 26, 2020. South Africa is heading into a nationwide lockdown for 21 days. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Migrant worker Ramesh Meena carries wife Ramila Meena, who fractured her leg, as they leave Ahmedabad, India, for their village after the city went into lockdown Thursday. Legions of India’s impoverished people were suddenly thrown out of work by the lockdown. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki) AMD107 AMD107 (Ajit Solanki / The Associated Press)

Health workers return as neighbors applaud at a hospital in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday. (Samuel Aranda/The New York Times)

A Costco employee, right, sanitizes carts to help reduce the spread of coronavirus in King of Prussia, Pa., on Wednesday. (Michael Bryant/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)

Shunting yard Limmattal is deserted and without any traffic because of the coronavirus outbreak in Spreitenbach, Switzerland, on Thursday. (Ennio Leanza/Keystone via AP)

Soldiers disinfect wagons at the central train station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Thursday. (Leo Correa / The Associated Press)

Lex Taylor, a veterinarian assistant, checks on a Yorkshire terrier named Gabby on Thursday in Roanoke, Va. Angels of Assisi has started offering its low-cost vet clinic curbside to reduce people’s exposure to the coronavirus. (Heather Rousseau / The Associated Press)

A shopper looks at empty shelves at a grocery store in Tokyo on Thursday. Residents raced to stock up after the governor called on people to stay at home this weekend amid rising infections. (Kiichiro Sato / The Associated Press)

Hospital workers pray before their shift, outside a hospital set up for coronavirus patients in Quetta, Pakistan, on Thursday. (Arshad Butt / The Associated Press)

A parking lot near a shuttered mall is empty on Thursday in Kyiv, Ukraine, which has been under quarantine since March 12. (Efrem Lukatsky / The Associated Press)

Cashier George Wallace, of Quincy, Mass., works while standing behind a plastic shield Thursday at a grocery-store checkout counter. (Steven Senne / The Associated Press)

Carlotta Poensgen, 19, a student, delivers medicine to Lulu Brockhaus, 71, an artist, from a safe distance in Berlin on Tuesday. (Emile Ducke/The New York Times)

Workers clean an airport in Luque, Paraguay, on Thursday to help contain the spread of the new coronavirus. (Jorge Saenz / The Associated Press)

A man sits on a bench at a park in Wuhan, China, on Thursday after the country lifted tough restrictions in the province at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. (STR/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

Margaret Ann Cirko sits in a police car after her arrest Thursday in Hanover Township, Pa. Cirko faced terroristic-threat and weapons-of-mass-destruction charges after she allegedly threatened to spread the coronavirus, went into a supermarket and coughed on $35,000 worth of produce and meat. (Aimee Dilger/The Times Leader via AP)

French President Emmanuel Macron, right, attends a videoconference Thursday with G20 leaders to discuss the coronavirus outbreak, at the Elysee Palace in Paris. (Benoit Tessier / The Associated Press)

Medical staff treat a patient in a COVID-19 ward at the Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York on Monday. Test kits and protective gear have been in short supply, doctors are falling sick and every day gets more difficult. But the staff keeps showing up. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)

A saleswoman arrives with new round marble cakes wrapped in fondant that look like toilet paper rolls, a commentary on the toilet paper frenzy, at a bakery in Dortmund, Germany, on Thursday. The special cake became a local bestseller. (Martin Meissner / The Associated Press)

Barber Fouad Lalo cuts hair on the balcony of a customer’s home in Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday. Lebanon has been under a government-ordered lockdown since last week. (Bilal Hussein / The Associated Press)

A pile of documents is categorized to describe patients with and without symptoms, at the molecular virology lab of San Matteo Hospital, in Pavia, northern Italy. (Claudio Furlan / 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.