Asia in review

This monthly gallery features some of the top photojournalism made by Associated Press photographers documenting Asia during the month of May.

A young Nepalese girl is sprayed with disinfectants as she arrives to get free food distributed by social workers during a lockdown to control the spread of the new coronavirus in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, May 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

A man grimaces as a nasal swab sample is collected from him to test for COVID-19 in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, May 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

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, Friday, May 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

A woman wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus stands on a street as a truck passes by Thursday, May 7, 2020, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

A child wearing a protective face mask to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus reads a book in a bookstore in Beijing, Sunday, May 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

A Nepalese farmer stands holding a sickle by a wheat field during lockdown on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, May 13, 2020.. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

A female orangutan named Amidah eats donated fruit, inside her enclosure at Medan Zoo in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Friday, May 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

Children cool off with water splashing from a pipe on a hot summer day in Fatehpur, India, Sunday, May 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

A soldier takes the body temperature of residents as they line up for free rice provided by the government for those whose livelihoods are affected by the new coronavirus outbreak, at the Central Jakarta Military District Command, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, May 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

People wait in line to undergo the COVID-19 tests while keeping a distance from each other at a makeshift clinic set up on a playground in Incheon, South Korea, Wednesday, May 20, 2020. (Yun Hyun-tae/Yonhap via AP)

A man spits water on rail tracks as passengers line up their bags on the railway station platform to reserve their spots in the boarding queue in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, May 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

A receptionist with a protective mask and a face shield answers a call at a hair salon in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, May 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Nepalese students shout slogans as they are detained by policemen during a protest amid lockdown in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, May 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

A Kashmiri girl watches from inside her house as men offer Eid prayers in the premises of a residential building in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sunday, May 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

People, wearing face shields, eat together at a pub in Osaka, western Japan Monday, May 25, 2020, as Japan lifted the coronavirus state of emergency in Osaka and the two neighboring prefectures of Kyoto and Hyogo. (Suo Takekuma/Kyodo News via AP)

A worker cleans a foot bridge construction site at a train station in Mumbai, India, Monday, May 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, bottom, arrives for the closing session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Wednesday, May 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

A barrel of a gun belonging to an Indian paramilitary soldier is seen between partially closed doors of an armored vehicle as they drive towards the site of an operation in Awantipora area, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, May 6, 2020. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)

A Thai classical dancer wearing a face shield to help curb the spread of the coronavirus performs at the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, May 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Pan-democratic legislator Lam Cheuk-ting, right, throws papers towards Pro-Beijing politician, Chan Kin-por as they attend a Legislative Council's House Committee meeting in Hong Kong, Monday, May 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Blue Impulse of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force fly over Tokyo as they perform a demonstration flight to express support and gratitude for medical workers, Friday, May 29, 2020. (Kyodo News via AP)

Senior students wait for class to begin with plastic boards placed on their desks at Jeonmin High School in Daejeon, South Korea, Wednesday, May 20, 2020. (Kim Jun-beom/Yonhap via AP)

Kashmiri men and firefighters douse a fire in a house which was destroyed in a gunbattle in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, May 19, 2020. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)

Tea hostesses prepare for the closing session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Wednesday, May 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Nepalese people walk through a deserted market during lockdown in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, May 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Nhuja Kaiju, left, of the RNA-16 volunteer group wearing a protective suit, helps a nurse collect swab samples of patients at a hospital in Bhaktapur, Nepal, Tuesday, May 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

A woman holds her smartphone in front of the spectators' seats which are covered with pictures of fans, before the start of a baseball game between Hanwha Eagles and SK Wyverns in Incheon, South Korea, Tuesday, May 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

A Sri Lankan Buddhist monk climbs the steps past statues at a deserted temple during curfew on Buddha Jayanthi, a day that celebrates the birth of the Buddha, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, May 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

A woman argues with police as she was told to stay away from the area in Mongkok, Hong Kong, Wednesday, May 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Medical staff spray disinfectant on a nucleic acid test kit collected from a reporter who was selected to cover the closing session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at a hotel in Beijing, Wednesday, May 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

People sit in their car as they watch the Stage X drive-in concert at KINTEX parking lot in Goyang, South Korea, Saturday, May 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joo)

A Kashmiri village woman collects stones to hand to the men to throw at security personnel during a protest against the killing of a civilian in Makhama village, west of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, May 13, 2020. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)

Red tape blocks off seats in an attempt to promote social distancing at a movie theater which reopened in Kyoto, western Japan, Saturday, May 23, 2020. (Kyodo News via AP)

A boy takes a bath inside a plastic container at a coastal village in Cavite province, south of Manila, Philippines, during a continuing enhanced community quarantine to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, Thursday, May 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

---

Follow AP News on Instagram