The Week In Photos: Scenes From The Lockdown

As the coronavirus pandemic lingers, here are some of the best photos of the last week:

 

Fire servicemen are seen fumigating a government building on the second day of a 14-day lockdown aimed at limiting the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Abuja, Nigeria on April 1, 2020. Photo: Sodiq Adelakun / Channels TV

 

People queue to receive food aid from Al-Habibiyah Food Bank Programme during the 14-day lockdown aimed at limiting the spread of coronavirus disease, in Abuja, Nigeria on April 3, 2020. Photo: Sodiq Adelakun / Channels TV

 

People gather to receive food aid from Al-Habibiyah Food Bank Programme during lockdown aimed at limiting the spread of coronavirus disease, in Abuja, Nigeria April 3, 2020. Photo: Sodiq Adelakun / Channels TV

 

A man wearing an alternative mask poses for a photograph in Kampala, on April 1, 2020. – Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on March 30, 2020, ordered an immediate 14-day nationwide lockdown in a bid to halt the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus which has so far infected 33 people in the country. Photo: Sumy Sadurni / AFP

 

Fire service crews decontaminate a street in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory Abuja on the third day of a 14-day lockdown aimed at limiting the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), on April 2, 2020. Photo: Sodiq Adelakun / Channels TV

 

This photo, taken on March 29, 2020, shows four nationals of Israel with their luggage carts at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, during their evacuation from Nigeria by Israel, as the world battles to halt the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Photo: Sodiq Adelakun / Channels TV

 

Police personnel in India wearing coronavirus-themed helmets ride on horses as they participate in an awareness campaign during a 21-day government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 pandemic in Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad, on April 2, 2020. Photo: Noah Seelam / AFP

 

A man walks through a sanitizing tunnel installed outside a subway station in Escobedo, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, on March 29, 2020, as a preventive measure against the spread of the new coronavirus, COVID-19. – The smart cabin consists of an inflatable unit in a circular shape that is permanently spraying a sanitizing product used in hospitals. Photo: Julio Cesar Aguilar

 

People queue to have their temperatures checked at a border-end of Abuja, as the authorities try to limit the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Abuja, Nigeria March 30, 2020. Photo: Sodiq Adelakun / Channels TV

 

Emergency medical personnel carry a patient affected with coronavirus (COVID-19) from a military hospital to an ambulance before being transported aboard a medicalised TGV (high-speed train) to be evacuated towards hospitals of other French regions on March 29, 2020, in Mulhouse, eastern France, amid the spread of the COVID-19 (new coronavirus) pandemic. Photo: Sebastien Bozon / AFP

 

 

The deserted Abuja City Gate, on the second day of a 14-day lockdown aimed at limiting the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Abuja, Nigeria on April 1, 2020. Photo: Sodiq Adelakun / Channels TV

 

Electoral officials wearing masks as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus count the votes at a polling station in Bamako on March 29, 2020. – Malians headed to the polls on March 29, 2020, for a long-delayed parliamentary election just hours after the country recorded its first COVID-19 death and with the leading opposition figure kidnapped and believed to be in the hands of jihadists. Photo: Michele Cattani / AFP

 

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