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Photos: No trains, metros, buses in wake of Janta Curfew on March 22

Updated on Mar 21, 2020 06:15 PM IST

Migrant workers and their families board an overcrowded passenger train, after government imposed restrictions on public gatherings in attempts to prevent spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mumbai, March 21, 2020. (Prashant Waydande / REUTERS)

ByHT Correspondent

As India gears up to observe a nationwide Janta Curfew on March 22, travellers are scrambling to get to destinations before restrictions come into effect. Government and private organisations have announced stopping their services to follow a Janta Curfew on Sunday in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to the people of the country to stay at home for a day. The national capital’s lifeline, the Delhi Metro will also shut services on all routes tomorrow.

Photos of the week: COVID-19 measures; Christchurch shootings a year on

Activists of the National Corps political party are seen wearing protective gear as they take part in a rally demanding to quarantine lawmakers amid coronavirus (COVID-19) concerns, in front of the Ukrainian parliament building in Kiev. (Valentyn Ogirenko / REUTERS)

Updated on Mar 21, 2020 04:05 PM IST

Photos: A national capital in isolation as COVID-19 curbs set in

A near empty view of the corridors of Connaught Place market amid coronavirus concerns. The Delhi government on Thursday stepped up sweeping restrictions to prevent community spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) by prohibiting gatherings of more than 20 people and ordering the closure of all dine-in restaurants in the Capital till March 31. (Ajay Aggarwal / HT Photo)

Updated on Mar 20, 2020 08:38 PM IST

Photos: COVID-19 redefines personal space world over

Women speak to each other while maintaining social distance on a bench next to the Reformation Wall in Geneva. In wake of the COVID-19, the concept of respecting personal space around the world has been redefined. (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP)

Updated on Mar 20, 2020 05:48 PM IST

Photos| COVID-19: Fact versus fiction

Life inside a red zone: Two-year-old Bianca Toniolo does a drawing of a microscopic view of the coronavirus on the 14th day of quarantine at home in San Fiorano, Italy. Social media is awash with myths about how people might stop the new coronavirus or treat infection with COVID-19, the disease this new strain discovered in 2019 causes. Scroll through for some facts to address the fiction. (Marzio Toniolo via REUTERS)

Updated on Mar 20, 2020 05:47 PM IST

Photos: Poignant moments, anxiety amid Coronavirus outbreak

Paramedics treat a patient infected with the coronavirus, at a hospital in Tehran, Iran. With the approaching Persian New Year, known as Nowruz, officials have kept up pressure on people not to travel and to stay home. Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour has reiterated that people should not even attend funerals. (Mohammad Ghadamali / AP)

Updated on Mar 19, 2020 09:47 PM IST

Photos: Medicine replaces shamanism among Myanmar’s far-flung Nagas

Women walk back from farming in Satpalaw Shaung village in Lahe township, Sagaing Division, Myanmar. With Malaria and tuberculosis screening out front and sacrifices to jungle gods out back, health worker Htan Pi and her shaman mother are an unlikely double-act in their isolated Myanmar village. Their family has been the local healers for generations in the northern community of Satpalaw Shaung near the Indian border. (Ye Aung thu / AFP)

Updated on Mar 19, 2020 04:43 PM IST

Photos: Monuments, public spaces deserted amid India’s COVID-19 quarantine

A notice seen at Lotus Temple after it was closed as a precaution against COVID-19, in New Delhi. With the number of positive cases approaching 150 in India, public monuments in the national capital have been shut till the end of this month. Union Tourism Minister Prahlad Patel had on Monday said all national monuments and museums under the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) will remain closed till March 31. (Amal KS / HT Photo)

Updated on Mar 18, 2020 06:58 PM IST

Photos: A family’s COVID-19 ordeal at a Washington nursing home

Lori Spencer (R) had an uneasy feeling dropping her 81-year-old mother off at the Life Care Center nursing home in Kirkland, Washington on February 26. She felt worse the next day, when her mother Judie Shape (L) threw an uncharacteristic tantrum - begging to leave. What the family didn’t know at the time: The home was already dealing with the initial signs of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States. (Jason Redmond / REUTERS)

Updated on Mar 17, 2020 04:53 PM IST

Photos: In Italy, triage and comforting lies for COVID-19 patients

Hospital employees tend to patients at a temporary structure set up outside the accident and emergency department, where any new arrivals presenting coronavirus symptoms are being tested, at the Brescia hospital, Lombardy. As of Monday, 2,158 people had died and 27,980 been infected by coronavirus in Italy – the second highest number of reported cases and deaths in the world behind China. (Flavio Lo Scalzo / REUTERS)

Updated on Mar 17, 2020 04:04 PM IST

Photos: Shoppers rush to stock up as coronavirus spreads

A woman walks past empty shelves, after further cases of coronavirus were confirmed in New York, at a Stop & Shop store in Port Washington, New York. (Shannon Stapleton / REUTERS)

Updated on Mar 16, 2020 03:56 PM IST

Photos: As coronavirus spreads, countries around the world announce more restrictions

An employee cleans the grounds behind the closed gates of Disneyland Park on the first day of the closure of Disneyland and Disney California Adventure theme parks as fear of the spread of coronavirus continue, in Anaheim, California. The number of novel coronavirus cases globally stood at 154,620 with 5,796 deaths, across 139 countries and territories on Sunday, according to a tally compiled by AFP from official sources. (DAVID MCNEW / AFP)

Updated on Mar 15, 2020 07:27 PM IST

COVID-19 turns epidemic and Farooq Abdullah released: India this week

Commuters are seen at Rajiv Chowk Metro Station, some wearing protective masks as a precautionary measure amid rising scare over coronavirus. Delhi government on Thursday declared COVID-19 as an epidemic. (Raj K Raj / HT Photo)

Updated on Mar 15, 2020 06:49 PM IST

Photos: A lack of hues in COVID-19 unsettled Tokyo

A pedestrian waits to cross the street in Tokyo’s Harajuku area. People with face masks are now ubiquitous throughout the Japanese capital, overwhelmed by the fear of the novel coronavirus, which is altering daily life and casting doubt over the Summer Olympic Games. (Jae C Hong / AP)

Updated on Mar 14, 2020 09:48 PM IST

Photos: A year documenting migration on the Rio Grande

Asylum seeking migrants from Central America line up along the border wall, while they wait to be transported to a nearby holding facility for migrants in Penitas, Texas, US. A short stretch of the meandering Rio Grande - the river that marks the border between the United States and Mexico - has been for a long time a focal point for migrants looking to head north, seeking a better life. (Adrees Latif / REUTERS)

Updated on Mar 14, 2020 09:24 PM IST

Photos of the week: Coronavirus continues to spread and Olympic flame lighting ceremony

A man wearing a protective face mask is seen following an outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19), at Lujiazui financial district in Shanghai, China. The coronavirus has killed more than 3,000 people in mainland China. It had also stalled the world’s second-largest economy as, beginning in January, authorities ordered work stoppages, travel restrictions and home quarantines. (Aly Song / REUTERS)

Updated on Mar 14, 2020 08:08 PM IST

Photos: Coronavirus spread shuts schools, cinemas

An office worker wearing a protective mask is screened with an infrared thermometer as he enters a building in New Delhi. The Delhi government on Thursday declared coronavirus an epidemic and shut all cinema halls, schools and colleges, except those where exams are on, till March 31. (Prashanth Vishwanathan/ Bloomberg)

Updated on Mar 13, 2020 07:40 PM IST

Photos: Supercomputer helps track East Africa locust outbreak

A farmer's daughter waves her shawl in the air to try to chase away swarms of desert locusts from her crops, in Katitika village, Kitui county, Kenya. A supercomputer is boosting efforts in East Africa to control a locust outbreak that raises what the U.N. food agency calls “an unprecedented threat” to the region’s food security. (Ben Curtis / AP)

Updated on Mar 13, 2020 05:57 PM IST

Photos | Life under lockdown: Wuhan’s windows, balconies and rooftops

Children play football as a man gets his hair cut on the roof terrace of a building at a residential compound in Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, Hubei province, China. The central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus is believed to have originated, remains under lockdown after more than 50 days, even as the world’s attention has shifted to other hotspots. (REUTERS)

Updated on Mar 13, 2020 05:57 PM IST

Photos: Japanese wheelchair dancer who dreams of performing at Olympics ceremony

Kenta Kambara, 34, performs onstage during a dance event in Tokyo. Whirling, spinning, reaching, grasping - Japanese wheelchair dancer Kenta Kambara’s emotive performances are wordless testimony to artistic passion and possibility. Born with spina bifida, a disorder that paralysed his lower body, Kambara aims to perform at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics opening or closing ceremonies, seeking to send a message to disabled and able-bodied people alike: it’s okay to be different. (Kim Kyung-Hoon / REUTERS)

Updated on Mar 12, 2020 05:36 PM IST

Photos: Women bear the brunt of climate change in Angola

Mousaka Fernanda seen in a village near Lubango in Angola. Huila province has been hit by drought after lack of rain for several years running dried up most water sources and devastated crops across the southern Africa region, where some 45 million people face growing hunger, the United Nations warns. (Osvaldo Silva / AFP)

Updated on Mar 12, 2020 04:28 PM IST

Photos: Youth protesters of Sudan await justice amid transition

Graffiti made during last years’ revolution on a street in Khartoum, Sudan. When activist and artist Youssef al-Sewahly took to the streets in Sudan late in 2018, he and the other protesters had one goal: to remove the autocratic regime of Omar al-Bashir and replace it with a civilian-led government. They’ve achieved the former, but the latter still hangs in the balance. (Nariman El-Mofty / AP)

Updated on Mar 12, 2020 03:23 PM IST

Photos: Italy goes into nationwide lockdown as virus numbers escalate

A view of the Saint Peter’s Square in Rome. Italy woke up on to deserted streets in an unprecedented lockdown on Tuesday after the government extended quarantine measures across the entire country in a bid to slow Europe’s worst outbreak of the coronavirus. (Guglielmo Mangiapane / REUTERS)

Updated on Mar 11, 2020 05:13 PM IST

Photos: The state of surfing in Fukushima 9 years after nuclear accident

Koji Suzuki, 64, a surfer and a surf shop owner, walks on the beach in front of a thermal power station after a surfing session in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. Suzuki's local beach, Minamisoma, is around 30 kilometre north of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and he still has vivid memories of March 11, 2011, when a towering tsunami triggered by a magnitude 9.0 quake surged inland, ravaging the facility. (Charly Triballeau / AFP)

Updated on Mar 11, 2020 04:43 PM IST

Photos: Holi celebrations begin, colours take over India

Women celebrate the arrival of Holi with coloured powders known as ‘gulal’, in Nadia district of West Bengal on the eve of the festival. Holi, the Hindu festival of colours, is observed at the end of the winter season on the last full moon of the lunar month. The festival also heralds the arrival of spring. (PTI)

Updated on Mar 11, 2020 04:43 PM IST

Photos: The peculiar carnival traditions of rural Spain

People prepare with the symbol of Carnival, the giant Miel Otxin, to participate in an ancient rural carnival in the small Pyrenees village of Lantz, northern Spain. The carnival is a long-standing rural tradition in which the forces of good and evil confront each other in a symbolic battle. (Alvaro Barrientos / AP)

Updated on Mar 11, 2020 03:07 PM IST

Photos: Moroccan fisherwomen break tradition, venture into deep waters

Saida Fetouh, Fatima Mekhnas and Fatiha Naji, members of the first Moroccan female fishing cooperative go out to sea in a fishing boat, in the village of Belyounech on the coast of the Mediterranean, northern Morocco. Fisherwomen in Moroccan coastal villages are breaking through boundaries into the male-dominated world of fishing. (Mosa'ab Elshamy / AP)

Updated on Mar 10, 2020 03:13 PM IST

Photos: Tourists steer clear of Venice over coronavirus fears

A gondola sails on an empty Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. A quarter of the Italian population was locked down on March 8 as the government took drastic steps to stop the spread of the deadly coronavirus that is sweeping the globe. Owing to the outbreak, the city is deserted even during the festive season. (Andrea Pattaro / AFP)

Updated on Mar 09, 2020 09:11 PM IST

Photos: The women who scavenge for gold at the top of the world

Eva Chura, 42, a 'pallaquera’, strikes rocks that were discarded from a mine, in search of gold, in the town of La Rinconada, the Andes, Peru. Living with their families in shacks in a gold shantytown in the Andes, these women make a living gleaning gold from rubble. They are called “pallaqueras” which roughly translates as ‘gold-pickers.’ (Nacho Doce / REUTERS)

Updated on Mar 09, 2020 03:51 PM IST

Yes Bank crisis and coronavirus scare: India this week

Account-holders wait outside a Yes Bank branch to withdraw their money at Fort in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The bank has been put under a moratorium by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). (Pratik Chorge / HT Photo)

Updated on Mar 09, 2020 12:01 PM IST

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