Life after lockdown altered by the coronavirus
Tape marks off distance between worshippers, mannequins serve as placeholders at cafes and robots serve drinks at bars.
After months of lockdown, countries around the world are returning to a version of life altered by coronavirus precautions. Restaurants, movie theaters, shopping malls and museums are reopening but must follow certain rules as governments ease restriction put in place to help prevent the spread of the virus.
To maintain social distancing at a restaurant in Amsterdam, customers dine in individual glasshouses lining a waterfront. At a shopping mall bathroom in Paraguay, black tape marks off urinals to encourage safe social distancing. Signs prevent close seating at a movie theater in Bangkok.
A urinal is marked with black tape to prevent use as a measure to encourage safe social distancing in a shopping mall bathroom in Asuncion, Paraguay, June 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
Many governments started lifting lockdowns as they faced political backlash and historic economic recessions. In just a few months, the pandemic has killed at least 410,000 people worldwide and infected about 7.4 million, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.
Some experts worry that a surge of the coronavirus in underdeveloped regions with shaky health systems could undermine efforts to halt the pandemic.
Display mannequins are placed between customers at the Cafe Livres in Essen, Germany, May 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
Wearing face shield, mask and gloves, an employee cleans a face mask vending machine at the Siam Paragon shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand, May 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
Wearing masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, Thiago do Nascimento, right, and Keilla de Almeida kiss during their drive-thru wedding at the registry office in the neighborhood of Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 28, 2020. Couples have begun turning to this unconventional union at a notary in Santa Cruz since the COVID-19 started battering Brazil. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Teachers show to Oumou Salam Niang, 6, how to use a mask during the first day of school after the lockdown, at a primary school in Barcelona, Spain, June 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Customers drink a toast through plastic protector against the coronavirus infection at Kichiri, an "izakaya" restaurant chain in Tokyo, June 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
A student wearing a face mask amid the coronavirus pandemic pays attention to his teacher at a rural school near Empalme Olmos, Monday, June 1, 2020. Some children returned to school Monday in some areas as Uruguay’s total lockdown begins to ease. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)
Graduating seniors of Brophy College Preparatory waits their turn to walk down the aisle to the stage individually during Diploma Days due to the coronavirus May 28, 2020, in Phoenix. Divided up into smaller groups, the graduating Class of 2020 crossed the stage to graduate over a several day period for social distancing protocols. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Circles designed to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus by encouraging social distancing line San Francisco's Dolores Park, May 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Moenchengladbach players celebrate in front of the cardboards with photos of Moenchengladbach fans displayed on the stands at the end of the German Bundesliga soccer match between Borussia Moenchengladbach and Union Berlin in Moenchengladbach, Germany, Sunday, May 31, 2020. The German Bundesliga becomes the world's first major soccer league to resume after a two-month suspension because of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, Pool)
People ride a train with seats arranged for social distancing measures during the first day of a more relaxed coronavirus lockdown in Manila, Philippines, June 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Muslims pray spaced apart to help curb the spread of the coronavirus during a Friday prayer at the Al Barkah Grand Mosque in Bekasi on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, May 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
Customers seated in small glasshouses enjoy lunch at the Mediamatic restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
Shoppers maintain social distancing as they walk in line to enter reopened Shibuya 109, a landmark and fashion building in Shibuya shopping district June 1, 2020, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
People drink soft-drinks as they practice social distancing during a mock movie at the Paragon Cineplex movie theater in Bangkok, Thailand, June 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Signs, for customers to observe social distancing measures, are seen on the road as a restaurant worker wearing a protective face mask and shield against the spread of coronavirus, waits for customers at a restaurant on Istiklal street, the main shopping street in Istanbul, as shops reopen June 1, 2020, following weeks of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
A waitress carries menus and hand sanitizer at a seafood restaurant in Marseille, southern France, June 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)
A man wearing a mask has a haircut with a barber wearing a protective suit to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus as people practicing social distancing are reflected on a window in Manila, Philippines, June 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Members of the Cape Town City Ballet Company, wearing face masks and shields and practicing social distancing as they practice after the company returned for their first day back at work after more than two months in lockdown in Cape Town, South Africa, Friday, June 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)
A robot known as "Alexia" waits on customers at a bar at Plaza del Castillo square, in Pamplona, northern Spain, June 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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