March 12, 2020

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, left, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, right, bump elbows as they attend a lunch with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

Greek actress Xanthi Georgiou, center, playing the role of the High Priestess, lights the torch of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, held by Greek shooting Olympic champion Anna Korakaki, left,  during the flame lighting ceremony at the closed Ancient Olympia site in southern Greece.

People coming from Venezuela with protective face masks in an effort to avoid contracting the new coronavirus, COVID-19, show hold their documents on the border at Simon Bolivar International Bridge, in Cucuta, Colombia.

Surfers and canoeists ride a Severn Bore surge wave, a naturally occurring happening in which a set of waves pushes through the Severn River estuary and upstream, in Newnham, Britain.

A couple kisses at the Barcelona airport, Spain.

U.S. military guard of honor salute a coffin covered with the American flag during a repatriation ceremony at Mandalay International Airport in central Myanmar. The U.S. military has repatriated what may be the remains of service members who were lost in action during World War II.

A student wears a face mask made with recyclable and natural materials, as a form of protest against the shortage of face masks in pharmacies, in order to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 disease, at Julio Cesar Turbay school in Soacha, Colombia.

A bus is cleaned with ultraviolet rays as part of measures against of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Shanghai, China.

Foxton Harding and Adison Pucci, both 12, work on school assignments at their home in Bothell, Washington. Their classes in the Northshore School District have been moved to online schooling for the next two weeks because of coronavirus concerns. 
 

Workers in protective suits clean Dolmabahce Palace due to coronavirus concerns in Istanbul, Turkey, March 11, 2020.