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    Photos as U.N. assembles, world copes with pandemic on Sept. 22, 2020

    Sep. 22, 2020 at 12:27 pm Updated Sep. 22, 2020 at 12:28 pm
    By
    Courtney Riffkin
    Seattle Times photo staff
    On the outskirts of Mexico City, Lucas, 9, plays around helping his dad, gravedigger Luciano Lopez, left, on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. Lucas came to work with his father since there was no one to stay home with him to attend televised school classes. The two are in a section of the Valle de Chalco Municipal Cemetery which opened early in the new coronavirus pandemic to accommodate the surge in deaths. (Rebecca Blackwell / The Associated Press)
    In Ahmedabad, India, a health worker takes a nasal swab sample to test for the new coronavirus on Sept. 22, 2020, at a facility erected to screen people. The nation of 1.3 billion people is expected to become the coronavirus pandemic’s worst-hit country within weeks, surpassing the United States. (Ajit Solanki / The Associated Press)
    A man wears a face mask in London’s Leicester Square as people walk past on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that pubs and restaurants must close between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. due to the spike of COVID-19 cases across the United Kingdom. (Alberto Pezzali / The Associated Press)
    A bar counter is sealed off to prevent contact with customers at the Usera neighborhood in Madrid, Spain, on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. Madrid is poised to extend its restrictions on movement to more neighborhoods, due to a surge in new virus cases in other districts and despite an outcry from residents over discrimination. (Manu Fernandez / The Associated Press)
    In Washington, D.C., House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pauses and looks at small flags placed on the grounds of the National Mall by activists from the COVID Memorial Project on Tuesday, Sept. 22, to mark the deaths of 200,000 lives lost in the U.S. to COVID-19. (J. Scott Applewhite / The Associated Press)
    Sharon Hayes, center, a poll judge in the general election, and Joyce Rollins, right, wait in line to vote outside the St. Louis County Board of Elections in St. Ann, Mo., on the first day of in-person absentee voting in Missouri on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. (Robert Cohen / St. Louis Post-Dispatch via The Associated Press)
    In Harare, Zimbabwe, a woman wearing a face mask to protect against the new coronavirus walks along a streeton Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. Zimbabwe has opened up most of its sectors, including industry, commercial, aviation and tourism, after months of closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.(Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi / The Associated Press)
    In Miami, health care workers line up for free personal protective equipment in front of a mural by artist Romero Britto at Jackson Memorial Hospital on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. Hundreds of workers lined up for the PPE given out by the New York nonprofit Cut Red Tape 4 Heroes. (Wilfredo Lee / The Associated Press)
    In Toronto, Canada, hundreds of people wait in line in an alley for hours at a COVID-19 assessment center at St. Michael’s Hospital on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. (Nathan Denette / The Canadian Press via The Associated Press)
    In this photo provided by the United Nations, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks in a recorded message played during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, at U.N. headquarters in New York. The U.N.’s first virtual meeting of world leaders started Tuesday with recorded speeches from some of the planet’s biggest powers, kept at home by the coronavirus pandemic that will likely be a dominant theme at their video gathering this year. (Eskinder Debebe / UN via The Associated Press)
    In Bayonne, southwestern France, people arrive at a  coronavirus testing center on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. France is reporting several thousand virus cases a day and more than 80 cases per 100,000 people weekly, among the highest rates in Europe. (Bob Edme / The Associated Press)
    In Pristina, Kosovo, a team of COVID-19 health experts from the “Robert Koch Institute, EMT and GOARN – Mission to Kosovo” arrives at the National Institute for Public Health on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. The team of epidemiological and medical experts from the German Robert Koch Institute will stay in Kosovo for two weeks to provide assistance with COVID-19. (Visar Kryeziu / The Associated Press)
    At Patriot Candrabhaga Stadium in Bekasi, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, a health worker cleans a window  on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, inside a quarantine facility for people showing symptoms of COVID-19. (Achmad Ibrahim / The Associated Press)
    At Patriot Candrabhaga Stadium in Bekasi, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, a patient sits inside a quarantine facility for people showing symptoms of COVID-19 on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. (Achmad Ibrahim / The Associated Press)
    Sniffer dogs named K’ssi, left and Miina work with trainer Susanna Paavilainen at the Helsinki airport in Vantaa, Finland, on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. Four corona sniffer dogs are trained to detect the virus that causes COVID-19 among arriving passengers at the airport. The trial program begins Wednesday. (Antti Aimo-Koivisto / The Associated Press)
    A couple wearing face masks strolls through fields of cosmos at Kurihama Flower Park in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. About 1 million cosmos are in full bloom. (Koji Sasahara / The Associated Press)
    At a market in Quezon city, Philippines, a man wearing a protective mask shops from behind plastic sheets to curb the spread of the coronavirus on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says he has extended a state of calamity in the entire Philippines by a year to allow the government to draw emergency funds faster to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and harness the police and military to maintain law and order. (Aaron Favila / The Associated Press)
    A man walks past an outdoor photography exhibition thanking  health care workers in Melbourne, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. The photo essay created by photographer Phoebe Powell is to acknowledge the people working in the Parkville Biomedical Precinct, home to some of the world’s leading medical researchers, clinicians and academics working to keep Victoria state safe during the coronavirus pandemic. (James Ross / The Associated Press)
    At the beach in Tel Aviv, Israel, a woman plays with her daughter next to a statue of the first Israeli prime minister, David Ben Gurion, on Tuesday, Sept 22, 2020, during a nationwide three-week lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus. (Oded Balilty / The Associated Press)
    Courtney Riffkin: 206-464-2203 or criffkin@seattletimes.com; on Twitter: @SeaTimesPhoto.

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