This monthly gallery features some of the top photojournalism made by Associated Press photographers documenting Asia during the month of March.
Indians dance and throw colored powder during Holi festival celebrations in Gauhati, India, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
A security guard wearing protective gear peeks out from an entrance gate of a construction site at the Central Business District following the coronavirus outbreak in Beijing, Monday, March 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
A man wearing a protective glove sits in a train in Tokyo, Monday, March 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
A car drives in front of a man standing near an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm in Tokyo Friday, March 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
An Indian railway employee works to convert a train coach into an isolation ward for the fight against the new coronavirus in Gauhati, India, Sunday, March 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
People practice social distancing in the hopes of preventing the spread of the coronavirus as they sit on chairs spread apart in a waiting area for take-away food orders at a shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, March 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
An army trooper uses a thermal scanner to check the temperature of people entering the metropolis at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Quezon city, Philippines, Sunday, March 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Passengers wear protective suits and face masks as they arrive at the Hong Kong airport, Monday, March 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
A woman's hair is smeared with colored powder during celebrations marking the Holi festival in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
A countdown clock for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is reflected in a puddle of water outside Tokyo Station in Tokyo, Monday, March 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
A man boards a plane in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on Monday, March 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)
People stand in designated areas on the floor of an elevator as a social distancing effort to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus at a shopping mall in Surabaya, Indonesia, Thursday, March 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Trisnadi)
A lawmaker wearing a face mask arrives for a plenary session at the lower house of parliament in Tokyo, Thursday, March 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
A man is disinfected inside a cubicle before entering local the city hall to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in Manila, Philippines on Tuesday, March 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Kashmiri health workers prepares to enter a residential building during contact-tracing drive after the first person in the region was tested positive for COVID-19 in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, March 19, 2020.(AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)
Indian passenger wearing a mask arrives a railway station in Jammu, India, Sunday, March 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
Children play soccer in the afternoon light in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
Blue Impulse of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force fly over during Olympic Flame Arrival Ceremony at Japan Air Self-Defense Force Matsushima Base in Higashimatsushima in Miyagi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, Friday, March 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Tables and chairs are taped for the social distancing law enforcement to help curb the spread of the coronavirus at a Starbucks coffee shop in Hong Kong, Monday, March 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a staff member walks down a corridor of an empty makeshift hospital in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Sunday, March 8, 2020. (Xiao Yijiu/Xinhua via AP)
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, firefighters conduct disinfection on the platform at Yichang East Railway Station in Yichang, in central China's Hubei Province, Tuesday, March 24, 2020. (Photo by Wang Shen/Xinhua)
Indian women and children display slogans written with henna on their palms during a protest against a new citizenship law in Bangalore, India, Sunday, March 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
Soldiers wearing protective face masks march past the closed entrance gates to the Forbidden City, usually crowded with tourists before the new coronavirus outbreak in Beijing, Thursday, March 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
People clap from balconies in show of appreciation to health care workers at a Chawl in Mumbai, India, Sunday, March 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
A man with a mask walks through torii gates at the Hie Shrine In Tokyo, Sunday, March 1, 2020.(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Motorists are sprayed with disinfectant in an attempt to curb the spread of the coronavirus at the gate of a housing complex in South Tangerang, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
Sumo wrestlers fight on the ring as spectators' seats are empty during the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka, western Japan, Sunday, March 8, 2020. (Kyodo News via AP)
Soap bubbles cover the steps of Wat Taimit Temple as volunteers clean the public areas as a safety precaution against the new coronavirus Wednesday, March 18, 2020, in Bangkok, Thailand. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Two women take a selfie with the Olympic rings in the background in the Odaiba section of Tokyo, Thursday, March 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Passengers practice social distancing in the waiting room in hopes of preventing the spread of the coronavirus at the Hua Lamphong Railway Station in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, March 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
People walk by a giant TV screen broadcasting news of Chinese President Xi Jinping talking to medical workers at the Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province, at a quiet shopping mall in Beijing, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
An Indian girl stands amid smoke as municipal workers fumigate an area with disinfectants as a precautionary measure against COVID-19 in Ahmedabad, India, Sunday, March 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
Migrant daily wage laborers crowd a bus as they travel to their respective hometowns following a lockdown amid concern over spread of coronavirus in New Delhi, India, Friday, March 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
A deer walks across a pedestrian crossing in Nara, Japan, Thursday, March 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
A man wearing a mask is silhouetted against a wall as he walks into the shade of a building Thursday, March 26, 2020, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
A worker wearing a mask works at a factory producing bicycle wheel rims in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province, Monday, March 2, 2020.(Chinatopix Via AP)
Nepalese armed police force personnel on their morning patrol walk through a mustard field in Khokana, Lalitpur, Nepal, Thursday, March 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
A daughter of a migrant laborer who has been quarantined with her parents while they were on their way to their village, waits for her father to return with food packets at a government school in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, March 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)