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Nations around the world continue battle against COVID-19

By Photos by Associated Press

April 26, 2021

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Johnson Shao, a nursing student at the College of Southern Nevada, administers the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center at UNLV today in Las Vegas. Nevada health officials are redoubling efforts to make it easier to get COVID-19 shots, with new drive-thru clinics in working-class neighborhoods in Las Vegas and expanded outreach to Reno's Hispanic community, to try to reverse a decline in vaccinations statewide.
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Guarani language professor Edgar Villalba poses with his fellow volunteer teachers, and students in front of his makeshift school in the Bañado Norte slum of Asuncion, Paraguay, today amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Since public schools are closed due to the pandemic, for almost a month, Villalba and others have been offering free in-person classes for over 50 underprivileged students, saying that it is difficult for these children to learn through WhatsApp messages on cellphones.
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Former professional basketball player Manu Ginobili's statue is seen dressed in a jacket and mask in Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires, Argentina, today.
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People walk in central Istanbul today. Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced the country's strictest pandemic restrictions so far, closing businesses and schools and limiting travel for nearly three weeks starting Thursday to fight a surge in COVID-19 infections and deaths. Turkey had so far instituted partial lockdowns to curb infections and to keep the economy running as it faces a significant economic downturn. The measures will be in place until May 17.
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People walk along a canal in the Naviglio district in Milan, Italy, today. Italy's gradual reopening after six months of rotating virus closures is satisfying no one: Too cautious for some, too hasty for others. Allowing outdoor dining starting today is coming too little, too late for restaurant owners whose survival has been threatened by more than a year of on-again, off-again virus closures.
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East Hartford High School senior Sudeen Pryce, right, center, receives support from classmate Alexia Phipps, left, East Hartford High School Intervention Coordinator Mark Brown, second from left, and EMT Katrinna Greene, top right, of Manchester, as RN Kaylee Cruz of Bristol administers a shot to Pryce at a mass vaccination site at Pratt & Whitney Runway in East Hartford, Conn., today.
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People wait after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine at a temporally vaccination center at the Fira of Barcelona, Spain, today. A new contagion resurgence seems to be waning in Spain, which has seen three major bouts of outbreaks since March last year. The accumulated caseload since then is nearing 3.5 million coronavirus infections.
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A plate reads in Spanish "Submission. Liquidation. Debts. Urgency. Unemployment," as restaurant and bar workers break plates to protest the nighttime lockdown that forces them to close early during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bogota, Colombia, today.
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People queue to receive the Pfizer vaccine, during a COVID-19 vaccination campaign at Riojaforum vaccination center, in Logrono, northern Spain, today.
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Residents socially distance on a soccer field as they stand with bags of food donated by the local NGO "G10 Favelas," amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the Capao Redondo area of Sao Paulo, Brazil, today.

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