Photos of the day: Grief and beauty as world inches back toward togetherness

Originally published May 28, 2020 at 11:32 am

Relatives mourn on Thursday as cemetery workers shovel sand over the coffin of 73-year-old Iziquiel Sampaio de Souza, who died of COVID-19 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Andre Penner / The Associated Press)

A child of a migrant worker waits for transportation to return to their home state, in Hyderabad, India, on Thursday. Rural villages across India are seeing an increase in coronavirus cases with the return of hundreds of thousands of migrant workers from cities where they labored. (Mahesh Kumar A / The Associated Press)

Workers disinfect a street in downtown Cairo on Thursday. (Fadl Abuzaid/DPA / TNS)

A team disinfects the grand mosque as mosques reopen Thursday in Pristina, Kosovo. (Visar Kryeziu / The Associated Press)

A Thai classical dancer wearing face shield performs at the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, on Thursday as the goverment continues to ease coronavirus restrictions. (Sakchai Lalit / The Associated Press)

Spectators watch a tennis tournament in Prague, Czech Republic, on Thursday. The Czech government is easing restrictive measures related to the pandemic. (Petr David Josek / The Associated Press)

Delegates arrive for the closing session of China’s National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Thursday. (Mark Schiefelbein / The Associated Press)

Children swing at a playground in Brussels on Thursday after some lockdown restrictions were lifted. (Francisco Seco / The Associated Press)

A former Russian border guard salutes as he gathers with his comrades to celebrate border guards day in front of the closed Gorky Park in Moscow, Russia, on Thursday. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin) XPAG103 XPAG103 (Pavel Golovkin / The Associated Press)

Workers disinfect a classroom at Ivory Park Secondary School, east of Johannesburg, South Africa, on Thursday ahead of its June 1 reopening. (Themba Hadebe / The Associated Press)

A woman walks past a mural honoring health workers in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Thursday. (Dita Alangkara / The Associated Press)

Medical workers demonstrate at a hospital on Paris on Thursday, demanding better pay and a rethink of a once-renowned public health system that was quickly overwhelmed by tens of thousands of virus patients. (Thibault Camus / The Associated Press)

A woman passes by screens showing civil behavior rules at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday. The rules read: “Do not visit crowded places and avoid contact with fever and respiratory symptoms.” (Ahn Young-joon / The Associated Press)

A city employee wipes away sweat during ceremonies in observance of National Flag Day outside the city hall in Manila, Philippines, on Thursday. (Aaron Favila / The Associated Press)

Loren Sweatt, principal deputy assistant secretary of labor for Occupational Safety and Health, right, listens as John Howard, director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, testifies Thursday at a House hearing on the federal government’s actions to protect workers from COVID-19. (Chip Somodevilla / The Associated Press)

A visitor passes by a painting during the reopening of Palazzo Reale, in Milan, Italy, on Thursday. The palace reopened only by reservation. (Luca Bruno / The Associated Press)

A crowd recites the Pledge of Allegiance while supporting Bobby Catone, the owner of a Staten Island tanning salon, on Thursday in New York. Catone opened the salon briefly Thursday morning in defiance of a law requiring non-essential businesses to remain closed during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Passengers ride in a train in Yokohama, near Tokyo, as businesses begin to reopen on Thursday. (Koji Sasahara / The Associated Press)

Owners and trainers watch a race at Addington Raceway in Christchurch, New Zealand. The country’s financially troubled horse racing industry reopened Thursday after a weekslong closure. (Mark Baker / The Associated Press)

A man works out at a sports club in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Thursday after restrictions were loosened. (Jon Gambrell / The Associated Press)

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Courtney Riffkin

Seattle Times photo staff

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