Global Press Journal Connections: The World in Photos

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Shinebayar Narankhuu livestreams a piano lesson from Play Music, a music store in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. About 100 people are watching the livestream. The store doesn’t usually offer lessons, but it’s helping customers pass time during the coronavirus lockdown with free online instruction.

Photo by Nansalmaa Oyunchimeg

Mexico City, Mexico

Marcelo Rodríguez works at MEGA, a supermarket in San Jerónimo, a neighborhood in Mexico City. The supermarket has stayed open during the spread of the coronavirus in Mexico, but while the shelves are full of products, the aisles are empty of customers.

Photo by Carolina López

Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico

A sanitation drone helps prevent the spread of the coronavirus at the Hospital de la Madre y el Niño Guerrerense in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico. Abraham Jiménez Montiel, the municipal health minister, said these same sanitation procedures were performed in other hospitals as well.

Photo by Avigaí Silva

Darkhan-Uhl, Mongolia

Employees from the Emergency Management Agency of Darkhan-Uul province disinfect streets in Darkhan soum. (A soum is a Mongolian administrative division within the provinces, similar to a district or county.) Employees will continue to disinfect public roads in Darkhan weekly through the end of April.

Photo by Tegshdelger Batbayar

Tuv Province, Mongolia

Irmuun Bayanmunkh, 7, waits for his horse to be saddled in Mongolia’s Tuv province. Irmuun is learning to ride horses at his uncle’s house while schools are shut down due to the spread of the coronavirus. In late January, Mongolia was one of the first countries to secure borders and close schools.

Photo by Myagmarsuren Battur

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

Guillermo Hernández Pinto, a parish priest in San Cristóbal de las Casas, blesses a palm frond held by Marco Antonio Martínez on Palm Sunday. Ordinarily, the Chiapas city would hold a traditional Mass and procession of worshippers through the streets for the religious holiday, but the tradition was changed this year due to concerns over the spread of the coronavirus. Instead of marching, the parish priest rode to different neighborhoods in a pickup truck, blessing water, pictures and palm fronds along the way.

Photo by Adriana Alcázar González

Dalanzadgad, Umnugovi province, Mongolia

Workers from the Mayor’s Office load an abandoned car frame onto a truck in Dalanzadgad, the capital of Umnugovi province. Baatar Janchiv, head of the Mayor’s Office, says they have been spraying public spaces with chemical cleaners since the spread of the coronavirus in neighboring China. The workers also pick up and disinfect garbage, like this car.

Photo by Uranchimeg Tsogkhuu

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Jonel Saint Jean washes his hands at a public tap in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The mayor’s office has installed about 40 water towers and nearly 1,000 water buckets at key points in the capital to encourage hand-washing and prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

Dalanzadgad-Bayandalai, Umnugovi Province, Mongolia

Munkhbaatar Sukhee, a ticket agent at the Dalanzadgad-Bayandalai checkpoint in Mongolia’s Umnugovi province, registers vehicles and gives each driver information on coronavirus prevention.

Photo by Uranchimeg Tsogkhuu

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Tseren-Oidov Altangerel, 6, a student in class 1B at Metropolitan School No. 34 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, watches a video lesson on the Mongolian language. The Mongolian government decided to provide online lessons while general-education schools are suspended due to coronavirus.

Photo by Myagmarsuren Battur

Jaffna, Sri Lanka

Vairan Neelam climbs a palmyra tree to obtain toddy, the sap from the tree, in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. People who do this work must obtain licenses in order to be able to sell the toddy. Neelam has been extracting and selling toddy for the past eight years.

Photo by Vijayatharsiny Thinesh

Jaffna, Sri Lanka

Kandiah Thaya cleans off dust on onions by trampling them on the farm where he works in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. After they are cleaned, he takes them to the market to sell.

Photo by Vijayatharsiny Thinesh

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

Anita Ierace presents a light show that she created on an analog projector at a bookstore in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico. The aim of the show, which combines sounds and music with light and color, is to “open the doors to the consciousness of sound and color where the combination of music and light is the result of a synthesized journey that transcends perception.”

Photo by Marissa Revilla

Lusaka, Zambia

Patrick Chikoloma, a member of the Circus Zambia group, breathes fire for a group of excited children at the Lusaka Showgrounds in Lusaka, Zambia.

Photo by Prudence Phiri

Kampala, Uganda

Kasasa Malcom, 7, stares intently at a rhino skull on display at the Buganda Tourism Expo in Kampala, Uganda. The exhibit was part of the Uganda Wildlife Education Centre’s table at the event, which takes place annually to showcase the country’s cultural and natural diversity.

Photo by Nakisanze Segawa

Mexico City, Mexico

Ángel González, 19 (left), and Javier Hernández, 25, climb a tower on a pyrotechnic castle, a wooden structure used for celebrations in Mexico City. When the gunpowder lights on the castles are ignited, they create the silhouette of a brilliantly lit castle for a few minutes. “Making pyrotechnic castles is what I like to do the most,” says González, who has worked on their construction for five years.

Photo by Mar García

Kampala, Uganda

Nabasumba Christine takes a selfie with Francis Balalulanya at the Buganda Tourism Expo, an annual event in Uganda’s capital Kampala that showcases the country’s cultural and natural diversity. Balalulanya, who has been a beekeeper for over 40 years, came to exhibit his initiative to protect and conserve bees.

Photo by Nakisanze Segawa

Mutare, Zimbabwe

Shamiso Chamwanyisa makes popcorn in a machine made of welded steel. Chamwanyisa, who works in a suburb of Mutare, Zimbabwe’s fourth largest city, says he can earn about 80 ZWL ($6) per day depending on the number of people who bring him corn to pop.

Photo by Evidence Chenjerai

Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir

Khanqah-e-Molla, also called the shrine of Shah-e-Hamdan, is one of the oldest shrines in Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir. It was constructed on the banks of the Jhelum River around 1400 AD by Sultan Sikander of the Shah Mir dynasty in honor of Mir Syed Ali Hamdani, the Sufi saint who popularized Islam in Kashmir.

Photo by Raihana Maqbool

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

Fatima Sánchez (center) and other members of Tzunūn Tēnek, a traditional dance group, perform the dance “La Iguana” in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. The group is made up of local young men and women between the ages of 15 to 35 who participate to help revive the city’s traditional culture.

Photo by Adriana Alcázar González

Kodikamam, Sri Lanka

Children dance karakattam, an ancient folk dance traditionally performed with water pots balanced on the head, during a festival at a temple in Kodikamam, Sri Lanka.

Photo by Vijayatharsiny Thinesh

Suchiapa, Chiapas, Mexico

Antonio López, 65, participates in the Dance of Calalá, part of the Corpus Cristi Festival that originated here in the Suchiapa municipality of Chiapas, Mexico. He wears traditional clothing from the town of Chamula and carries leaves from a coyol palm tree to use as offerings.

Photo by Marissa Revilla

Kodikamam, Sri Lanka

Musicians play the melam, a percussion instrument, and the nadaswaram, a wind instrument, during a festival in Kodikamam, a town in northern Sri Lanka.

Photo by Vijayatharsiny Thinesh

Mexico City, Mexico

Jairo Nol Vásquez replaces old water valves in northern Mexico City. The valve-changing work started in September 2018, a year after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake in Mexico City caused serious damage to the underground valves.

Photo by Mar García

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