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    Photos from a COVID world: Elections, sports and a socially distanced rock concert

    Aug. 11, 2020 at 1:21 pm Updated Aug. 11, 2020 at 1:21 pm
    A health worker calls out to people to come out for screening for COVID-19 symptoms in the slum area of Dharavi, in Mumbai, India. India has the third-highest coronavirus caseload in the world after the United States and Brazil. 
 (Rafiq Maqbool / The Associated Press)
    A tourist wearing a facemask leaves Stoa Attalos in the ancient Agora archaeological museum in Athens. The Greek culture ministry is closing down the facility for two weeks after a worker there was diagnosed with COVID-19.  (Thanassis Stavrakis / The Associated Press)
    A volunteer entertains a baby while his father is tested for coronavirus at Vilafranca del Penedes in Barcelona province of  Spain.  (Emilio Morenatti / The Associated Press)
    Fruit and vegetable vendors wait for customers at a market in Bucharest, Romania. COVID-19 infections are ticking up again in that country.   (Andreea Alexandru / The Associated Press)
    Election workers wear face protection while sorting absentee ballots in Atlanta, where residents are voting in runoffs to settle party nominations in congressional and legislative races, as well as a closely watched contest for the Democratic nomination for Fulton County district attorney.   (John Spink / The Associated Press)
    Staff at the Israel Museum clean works of art ahead of reopening after a five-month closure. The Jerusalem facility is the country’s largest cultural institution, displaying the priceless Dead Sea scrolls and other treasured artworks. 
  (Maya Alleruzzo / The Associated Press)
    A worker checks the temperature of visitors arriving at the zoo in Lahore, Pakistan, where low COVID-19 infection rates are prompting a loosening of restrictions.  
 (K.M. Chaudary / The Associated Press)
    A clown joins a protest outside the Fine Arts Palace in Mexico City. Demonstrators in an artists group were demanding financial aid amid the economic slowdown brought by partial lockdowns to contain the spread of COVID-19.
 (Marco Ugarte / The Associated Press)
    Nurse Shannon Smallwood helps Luis Martinez, 2, wear his cap as his mother holds him for a photo. They were having an outdoor  graduation celebration for families enrolled in a Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) program pairing low-income first-time mothers with nurses for support in Tyler, Texas.  (Sarah A. Miller / The Associated Press)
    Two women who have parents suffering from COVID-19 pray outside a public hospital in Lima, Peru.   (Rodrigo Abd / The Associated Press)
    A volunteer shows the occupants of a car the step by step procedure for performing a COVID-19 nasal swab early Tuesday in Yuma, Arizona, during a promotion in which officials hope to test 10,000 people.  (Randy Hoeft / The Associated Press)
    A lone beachgoer sits under palm trees in Miami Beach, Florida, where coronavirus case counts continue to be high.   (Wilfredo Lee / The Associated Press)
    John Miller, 25, of Atlanta, spins a large check sign for the #OneCheckIsNotEnough campaign near Georgia Sen. David Perdue’s office in Atlanta. It’s part of a campaign lobbying for more federal government relief, potentially in the form of recurring direct payments.   (Brynn Anderson / The Associated Press)
    Election officials wait for people to vote inside a polling station in Cairo, Egypt, where Senate elections are being held as the country faces an uptick in daily numbers of new coronavirus cases.   (Nariman El-Mofty / The Associated Press)
    The tail of a humpback whale comes out in the morning fog, on the Saint-Lawrence River in Tadoussac, Que.bec, as Canadian tourists stay close to home rather than venturing to the United States or elsewhere because of coronavirus.   (Jacques Boissinot / The Associated Press)
    A nurse takes a sample from an army officer for a COVID-19 test at a Public Health Ministry post in Asuncion, Paraguay.    (Jorge Saenz / The Associated Press)
    Ball boys wearing face masks hold balls ahead of the Europa League quarterfinal soccer match between Shakhtar Donetsk and FC Basel at the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.  
 (Lars Baron / AP)
    Fans occupy separate pens to force social distancing, ahead of the Sam Fender rock concert at the Virgin Money Unity Arena, a pop-up venue in Gosforth Park, Newcastle, northern England, on Tuesday. Promoters called it the world’s first sociall distanced COVID-19 gig.    (Owen Humphreys / The Associated Press)
    A man wearing a face mask to protect against the coronavirus sits in front of a mural at a shopping and office complex in Beijing. 
  (Mark Schiefelbein / AP)
    By
    Courtney Riffkin
    Seattle Times photo staff

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

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