Photos of coronavirus’ effects around the world: going home, staying home, preparing for Ramadan

Originally published April 21, 2020 at 11:10 am

A Nepalese woman carries her child as she waits in rain to board a bus to go back to their village during lockdown in Bhaktapur, near Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, April 21, 2020. Thousands of villagers who have been stranded in Kathmandu for weeks boarded buses heading east of the capital. (Niranjan Shrestha / The Associated Press)

Health workers wear face masks and raincoats as protection against the coronavirus at a community health center in Yalimo, Indonesia, on Tuesday. (Gerry Kossay / The Associated Press)

Danny Delmotte, 62, speaks with his doctor during a partial lockdown in Brussels on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. While shops, restaurants and schools remain closed in Belgium, many home health care workers still travel to take care of their clients. (Francisco Seco / The Associated Press)

Workers disinfect the Cobanija mosque in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Tuesday, ahead of the holy month of Ramadan. Prayers will be attended only by clerics as the rest of the community observes government restrictions. (Kemal Softic / The Associated Press)

People wait on a soccer field to be tested for COVID-19 in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Tuesday. (Themba Hadebe / The Associated Press)

A migrant woman and her child wait in a hotel room in Kranidi, southwest of Athens, on Tuesday. The shelter for asylum-seekers was placed on isolation after a resident tested positive for the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) XTS106 XTS106 (Thanassis Stavrakis / The Associated Press)

Catholics pray outside St. Anthony’s church in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on the anniversary of deadly bombings. Many marked the day from their homes on Tuesday amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Eranga Jayawardena / The Associated Press)

Women walk past a poster depicting a policeman warning against breaking self-isolation rules in St.Petersburg, Russia, on Tuesday. (Dmitri Lovetsky / The Associated Press)

Anti-government demonstrators shout slogans while wearing masks with the colors of the Lebanese flag during a protest over the economic and financial crisis in Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday. (Hussein Malla / The Associated Press)

A nurse adjusts a face mask on Marguerite Mouille, 94, as her daughter visits her at a nursing home in eastern France on Tuesday. France banned all nursing-home visits early in the pandemic, but has allowed families to visit their relatives since Monday. (Jean-Francois Badias / The Associated Press)

Funeral-home workers deliver a coffin to a crematorium in Lima, Peru, on Monday. Government regulations to contain the spread of the new coronavirus stipulate that COVID-19 victims should be cremated. (Martin Mejia / The Associated Press)

People wait to receive free wheat from the government ahead of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, during a quarantine for the coronavirus in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday. (Rahmat Gul / The Associated Press)

Police officers patrol in downtown Peshawar, Pakistan, on Tuesday. Authorities imposed a nationwide lockdown to help curb the spread of coronavirus. (Muhammad Sajjad / The Associated Press)

Nurses protest in front of the White House while social distancing on Tuesday. The group sought to bring attention to health care workers across the country who have contracted COVID-19 due to a lack of personal protective equipment. (Patrick Semansky / The Associated Press)

British and American nationals who were stranded in Bangladesh arrive to board repatriation flights at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Tuesday. (Al-emrun Garjon / The Associated Press)

A TV cameraman films in an empty stadium during a pre-season baseball game in Seoul on Tuesday. South Korea’s professional baseball league has decided to begin its new season May 5, initially without fans. (Lee Jin-man / The Associated Press)

A man wearing a mask stretches in a business district in Tokyo on Tuesday. (Eugene Hoshiko / The Associated Press)

A woman shops for Ramadan lanterns in Cairo, Egypt, on Tuesday. Muslims around the world are trying to work out how to maintain the many cherished rituals of Islam’s holiest month during the coronavirus pandemic. (Nariman El-Mofty / The Associated Press)

A Kashmiri woman rows in the Dal Lake amid lockdown in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, on Tuesday. India has locked down its entire population, including an estimated 176 million people who struggle to survive on $1.90 a day or less. (Dar Yasin / 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.