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Cédric Gerbehaye

NURSES PUSHED TO EXHAUSTION 05.01, Mons, Belgium Taking a brief break during ceaseless frontline work treating patients with the coronavirus, nurses Caroline Quinet (at left) and Yasmina Cheroual rest outside CHU Ambroise Paré hospital. The pair, who had known each other for only a few months, pulled long shifts in the intensive care unit. Like many medical facilities around the world, Belgian hospitals initially were overwhelmed by a rush of patients with the virulent, ever changing new disease. These nurses, pulled from their standard duties, were thrown into full-time COVID-19 work—reinforcement troops for a long, exhausting battle.

A doctor’s personal protective equipment (PPE) is strewn on the ground outside a hospital in La Louviere, Belgium. The doctor stripped the PPE off to avoid contamination when entering an emergency room from an ambulance. (From: A world gone viral)

At a nursing home in La Louviere, Belgium, a nurse restrains and stabilizes a resident so her colleague can perform a COVID-19 test. Nursing homes have been particularly impacted by the pandemic.

While the indigenous Aymara population harvests and sells salt crusted on the surface of the Salar de Uyuni salt flat, the much more lucrative lithium is dissolved in brine found deep underground.

Farzan Sheikh, then 16, was shot in the left eye by an Indian policeman with a pellet gun on March 28, 2017. It happened in his neighbourhood in Srinagar, in Indian-administered Kashmir. Sheikh was an unwitting victim again last August, when pellets blinded his right eye. “He moves with the memory of the house,” says his mother, Muzamil.