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Darkhan, Darkhan-Uhl, Mongolia
Nasanbayar Ser-Od, a public-utility employee in Darkhan-Uul province, paints the Swing Bridge in Darkhan, Mongolia. Normally, workers finish improvement projects before June 1 each year, in time for the local Mother and Children’s Day celebrations. This year, the celebration was canceled due to the coronavirus, but workers still completed the improvement projects.
Baruun Saikhan Mountains, Mongolia
Janaga Baatar, 13, lights a candle at Gandanchoimzadlin Monastery, a temple in the Baruun Saikhan Mountains in southern Mongolia. Janaga says he has come to the monastery daily for three years to chant Buddhist teachings during his breaks from school.
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Bianca Rodríguez holds a cardboard sign that reads “university students only” at an entrance to the University of Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where students can claim free boxes of food. Employees and volunteers from the Deanery of Graduate Studies and Research, the Rio Piedras Urban, Community and Business Action Center and Mesón de Amor, a community project, have distributed the boxes once a week for six weeks to help students who have been economically affected by the coronavirus.
Kisangani, DRC
Mireille Busombolo, a 29-year-old housewife, cooks at her home in Kabondo, a commune in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo. She wears a mask, even inside her own home, to protect against the spread of the coronavirus.
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico
Erick Martínez Pérez, 40, and other workers from the health department’s vector control program disinfect the park outside Iglesia de San Francisco, a church in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico. As a preventive measure during the coronavirus health crisis, the San Cristóbal de las Casas City Council and health department coordinated an urban sanitation campaign in the city’s public spaces.
Bayandalai, Umnugovi Province, Mongolia
Dentist Chuluunchimeg Tuul treats Khuslent Bayarsaikhan, 12, in Bayandalai, a town in southern Mongolia’s Umnugovi province. There is no dentist in Bayandalai, so people usually travel 86 kilometers (53 miles) to visit a dental clinic in the province’s capital, Dalanzadgad. This year, doctors and nurses in the Healthy Dent program visited Bayandalai for four days to provide free dental treatment for children in first to fifth grade.
Tecámac, Mexico
Allan Christian Covarrubias, a parish priest at Natividad de la Virgen María, a church in Tecámac, Mexico, gives Sunday Mass via livestream. Religious events have been canceled in Mexico since March 30, along with other public gatherings, due to the coronavirus. Religious events were allowed to resume on May 31, but due to limitations on the number of people able to gather, the online services have continued at Natividad de la Virgen María.
Erdenebulgan, Arkhangai Province, Mongolia
Volunteer Gantugs Namnansuren hands a care package to Jargaltsetseg Nandintsetseg, 12, and Khurelchuluun Batsukh in Erdenebulgan, an area in northern Mongolia’s Arkhangai province. People in Need, an international nonprofit, donated packages to 350 low-income households as part of a campaign to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
People attend the launch of campaigns for the regular parliamentary election of the Mongolian State Great Khural (Parliament) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The election will be held on June 24, 2020, so the government of Mongolia adopted regulations for campaign activities. They include moving many activities online, cleaning and disinfecting areas where gatherings will be held, keeping a distance of at least 1.5 meters (about 5 feet) between attendees, avoiding physical touch, and wearing face masks.
San Pedro Atzompa, Mexico
Irene Colín, back left, and Saúl Rojas help their children, Héctor Rojas, left, 6, and Sophie Rojas, 8, with their school assignments and music education at their home in San Pedro Atzompa, a town in the State of Mexico. Schools in Mexico have been closed since March 20 due to the spread of the coronavirus. While confinement is not mandatory throughout the country, many families have respected and embraced confinement, keeping themselves safe at home.
Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
Daniel Pérez packs bags of food provisions in Puebla, Mexico. The Fresh Food Basket includes 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of Manila mangoes, cucumbers, seedless limes, onion and a pineapple for 100 Mexican pesos ($4.47). The collective Enfermos Renales y Trasplantados Puebla organized their network of volunteers to sell fruits and vegetables from producers in Veracruz at markdowns, so low-budget households can access them.
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Demonstrators march against police abuse in downtown Guadalajara, the capital of Jalisco, Mexico. The protest concluded in front of the government palace. The Jalisco government mobilized the police force to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but many came to protest the police’s excessive force, especially following the death of Giovanni López, who died in police custody after being arrested for not wearing a face mask.
Tecámac, Mexico
Alma Soto stands in front of Tacos Lupe in Tecámac, in the State of Mexico. To prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the taqueria has stopped allowing dine-in customers, made customers apply antibacterial gel at the entrance and required face masks. The shop also placed markers to indicate where people should wait for their orders, so they won’t stand too close together.
Umnugovi Province, Mongolia
Tsengel Tseveen, an employee at Mandalt Construction, replaces gym flooring at the Polytechnical College of Umnugovi province in southern Mongolia. Many institutions are making repairs while they’re closed due to the spread of the coronavirus.
Tecámac, Mexico
Alicia Covarrubias, 73, has owned her market in Tecámac, a municipality in Mexico, for 40 years. She has never experienced anything like the coronavirus situation. She decided not to close her store because it is how she earns her living and opted instead to prevent infection by keeping people at a safe distance. She is worried because a neighbor recently died from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. “It’s a difficult situation, but we have to take care of ourselves and keep going,” Covarrubias says.
Kisangani, DRC
From left, Sublime Gbwema, 4; Mastro Ngongo, 6; Ephrahim Gbwema, 11; and Jacque Fumu, 11, entertain themselves near their homes in Meteo, a neighborhood in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo. Public institutions, including schools, have been closed since March to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, leaving children with plenty of time to play.
Mexico City, Mexico
Fernando Urzúa distributes water bills in downtown Mexico City, Mexico. Urzúa usually investigates reports of leaks but has been filling in for a colleague at high risk for contracting the coronavirus. “It’s uncomfortable but safe,” Urzúa says of the face mask and goggles his employer gave him to protect himself. “It does scare me to go out, but when I get home, I take off all my clothes, I put it in a plastic bag and I bathe. We have to follow the hygiene measures that the government of Mexico City has implemented.”
Erdenebulgan, Arkhangai Province, Mongolia
Gankhuyag Jambaninj is a teacher at Kindergarten No. 5 in Erdenebulgan, an area in northern Mongolia’s Arkhangai province. Even though the kindergarten has been closed since late January due to the coronavirus, teachers are preparing for students to return in September. “Children miss their kindergarten very much,” Gankhuyag says, “so everything should be colorful and clean when they return.”
Khuvsgul, Mongolia
Badnaagarav Nyamkhuu, left, and Anu Delgerdalai, 14, combine aloe vera, pure alcohol and essential oil to make hand sanitizer at Anu’s home in Khuvsgul, Mongolia. Badnaagarav, a teacher at Erdmiin Dalai Complex School, has been working with her students to produce and bottle this sanitizer for people who cannot afford their own.
Bayandalai, Umnugovi Province, Mongolia
Norjmaa Durlen teaches physics at a general education school in Bayandalai, a town in southern Mongolia’s Umnugovi province. The students are preparing for university entrance exams. To comply with regulations meant to slow the spread of the coronavirus, teachers and students wear masks, maintain social distance and gather in small groups.
Mexico City, Mexico
Emilio Domínguez sells face masks at an intersection in San Jerónimo, a neighborhood in Mexico City. When the coronavirus started spreading in Mexico in late February, there was a shortage of masks for sale. But now there are vendors throughout the city, many of whom have taken up selling masks because they lost their jobs.
Darkhan, Darkhan-Uhl, Mongolia
Turbat Batmunkh works at San Orgiu Co. Ltd., a recycling and manufacturing plant in Darkhan, a city in Mongolia’s Darkhan-Uul province. Turbat lost his hearing at the age of 5, and he has been saving money for the surgery needed to regain his hearing. Despite the threat of the coronavirus, Turbat continues to work daily, even on his days off.
Murun, Khuvsgul Province, Mongolia
Uguumur Ochirkhuyag organizes donated books for the free library she created in Murun, the center of Mongolia’s Khuvsgul province. The only public library in Murun was closed in January due to the spread of the coronavirus, leaving the community without a place to read borrowed books. Uguumur was inspired to host a free library, and her father helped by asking for support on social media. In response, people donated three refrigerators and many books. Uguumur painted the refrigerators with phrases related to books in decorative Latin, Cyrillic and traditional Mongolian scripts, and placed them in central Murun.
Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
The municipal government of Puebla has come up with various ways to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus in this city in central Mexico. Since April 20, members of the Department of Municipal Citizen Security have stopped vehicular circulation in the first block of the city. They mark the streets, inform the citizenry of the procedures, and restrict authorized access to local transit, water trucks, trash trucks and emergency vehicles.