
Week in Pictures
The Week in Pictures: May 7 - 14
A moment of relief in Spain, an elbow bump between Senators, a grim burial in Russia and more.

Spain
A customers sits on a terrace bar in Tarragona on May 11, 2020.
Spain has had more cases of infection than anywhere else in Europe and more than 26,000 deaths. The vast majority of those deaths — more than 17,000, according to a tally of local government figures — occurred inside Spain's 5,400 nursing homes.

France
A student walks into her classroom at the Vaucanson school in Paris on May 14.
The French government is easing some of the closure and home-confinement orders it imposed March 17 to curb infections, with businesses permitted to reopen, residents cleared to return to workplaces and schools welcoming some students again starting Monday.
Only preschools and elementary schools are set to start up at first, and classes will be capped at 10 students at preschools and 15 elsewhere. Administrators were told to prioritize instruction for children ages 5, 6 and 10.



Georgia
Demonstrators protest the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga., on May 8. Gregory McMichael and Travis McMichael were arrested the previous night and charged with murder.




Pennsylvania
Supporters wait for President Donald Trump's motorcade in Allentown, Pa., on May 14.
It was the second time in as many weeks that Trump had traveled to a state where he faces a tight race with former Vice President Joe Biden, using the power of the presidency to start hitting the unofficial campaign trail as he enters the next stage of campaigning during the coronavirus.




New York City
A man jogs past a SoHo storefront painted with graffiti in Manhattan on May 7.
Photos: Boarded-up storefronts are magnets for graffiti in New York City

Virginia
Mannequins in 1940s era clothing are seated in the dining area of the Inn at Little Washington, a Michelin three star restaurant in Rappahannock County on May 14.
The Commonwealth of Virginia will allow restaurants to reopen at only 50 percent capacity to maintain social distancing. The restaurant plans to keep the mannequins in place when it reopens on May 29.

U.S.-Canada border
Doug Brown of Port McNeill, British Columbia, and Maria Bowman, of Everett, Wash., chat by a ditch along the border, in Abbotsford, Canada, on May 10.
The stretch of international border southeast of Vancouver has become a popular meeting spot for those separated by the border closure to non-essential travel.



Kenya
Volunteer nurse Anita Thumbi tends to a patient at a facility used to train the public on infection prevention and management at a local health center in Waithaka, a Nairobi suburb, on International Nurses Day on May 12.
Thumbi, a nurse by training, and an elected member of County Assembly in the Nairobi County Government, has joined the front lines in the fight against COVID-19.




Peru
A police car stands parked behind a coffin holding a dead body left on a sidewalk during the coronavirus outbreak in Lima, Peru, on May 8.
Last week's gallery: Lonely graduation and a nursing home drone