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    Photos of the day: What life in the coronavirus era looks like around the world

    June 24, 2020 at 2:31 pm Updated June 24, 2020 at 2:31 pm
    Wearing face masks and sitting at socially distanced desks, students attend the first day of school reopening at a high school in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on Wednesday. (Vincent Thian / The Associated Press)
    People wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus walk through a shopping and office complex in Beijing on Wednesday. (Mark Schiefelbein / The Associated Press)
    A health worker takes a swab sample from a woman for a COVID-19 test in New Delhi on Wednesday. India recorded a record spike of more than 15,000 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, with Mumbai and New Delhi as the worst-hit cities in the country. (Manish Swarup / The Associated Press)
    Lawmakers attend a session of the state parliament of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Duesseldorf, Germany, on Wednesday. Plastic partitions were set up at lawmakers’ desks due to the coronavirus. (Martin Meissner / The Associated Press)
    People crowd the beach Wednesday, the hottest day of the year so far in Bournemouth, England. Temperatures reached 90.7F at London’s Heathrow Airport. (Andrew Matthews / The Associated Press)
    An older woman wearing a face mask to prevent the spread of the coronavirus watches the Victory Day military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the Nazi defeat at Palace Square in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Wednesday. The Victory Day parade normally is held May 9, the nation’s most important secular holiday, but was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Dmitri Lovetsky / The Associated Press)
    A man sells face masks outside a makeshift shop in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Wednesday. Health professionals in the southern African country  are striking for better pay and adequate protective gear as they battle the coronavirus pandemic. (Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi / The Associated Press)
    People gather on a soccer field to receive kits equipped with cleaning products and children’s protective face masks in the Paraisopolis slum of São Paulo, Brazil, on Wednesday. A nongovernmental organization is providing the kits to help control the spread of the coronavirus. Paraisopolis is one of the areas of São Paulo that is most affected by COVID-19. (Andre Penner / The Associated Press)
    A photographer for The Associated Press received this mask —  showing a gun, the American flag and the phrase “don’t tread on me” — as part of a Utah program offering free face coverings during the coronavirus pandemic. Ben Hart, deputy director of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, has apologized and said it was a mistake. (Christine Passey-Spencer / The Associated Press)
    Plainclothes police officials fix barbed wire to seal off an area to control the spread of the new coronavirus in Islamabad on Wednesday. Parts of the city were sealed on the advice of the Health Department and epidemiologists after hundreds of coronavirus cases were reported from these areas. (Anjum Naveed / The Associated Press)
    Members of Orange County Fire Rescue pack personal protective equipment (PPE), including disposable face masks, reusable masks and hand sanitizer, in bags to be handed out to small businesses in Orlando, Florida, on Wednesday. Orange County hopes to supply up to 10,000 businesses with the items over the next several days. (John Raoux / The Associated Press)
    Urban artist Kevin Perez, left, poses for photos in front of his mural honoring health workers near La Verbena cemetery in Guatemala City on Wednesday. (Moises Castillo / The Associated Press)
    Dr. Mandy Cohen, Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, updates the public on the COVID-19 virus during a press briefing in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Wednesday. (Robert Willett / The News & Observer via The Associated Press)
    Hundreds of people line up outside the Mega Plaza mall in Lima, Peru, on Wednesday. Peru’s  government ignored scientific warnings and reopened the country’s shopping malls this week. (Martin Mejia / The Associated Press)
    People relax in a public garden in the city center  of Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday. Turkish authorities have made wearing masks mandatory in three major cities to curb the spread of COVID-19 following an uptick in confirmed cases since many businesses reopened. (Burhan Ozbilici / The Associated Press)
    French virologist Dr. Didier Raoult, left, who has pushed aggressively for widespread use of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus patients, arrives for a parliamentary inquiry into France’s management of the virus crisis in Paris on  Wednesday. Raoult’s early research helped prompt U.S. President Donald Trump to champion the drug and French authorities to approve its use, though clinical trials have since found the drug wasn’t effective for hospitalized patients and can raise heart health risks. At right is parliament member Eric Ciotti. (Christophe Ena / The Associated Press)
    A huge billboard depicts  Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic in Belgrade, Serbia, on Wednesday. Djokovic has tested positive for the coronavirus after taking part in a tennis exhibition series he organized in Serbia and Croatia. (Darko Vojinovic / The Associated Press)
    A girl wearing a face mask to combat the spread of the coronavirus, plus a flower crown she made herself at a workshop for children, stands during an event inspired by pre-Christian traditions at the Dimitrie Gusti Village Museum in Bucharest, Romania, on Wednesday. (Vadim Ghirda / The Associated Press)
    By
    Courtney Riffkin
    Seattle Times photo staff

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

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