Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon, but to our ignorance and complacency coming to an end.
Joseph Campbell
Firefighters combat a blaze in the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine, where forest fires have raged near the site of the infamous 1986 nuclear catastrophe for almost a week. (STRINGER / SPUTNIK)A nurse holds a newborn baby wearing a face shield as a protective measure at a clinic in Bireuen, Aceh province, Indonesia. (Amanda Jufrian / AFP)Protesters shout outside the statehouse atrium to protest the state’s continued stay at home order and non-essential business closures, in Ohio, US. (Joshua A. Bickel / Columbus Dispatch )99-year-old former Brazilian WWII combatant Ermando Armelino Piveta gestures as he was discharged after being treated for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Brasilia, Brazil. (Reuters)Protesters carry rifles to show their displeasure with the local government’s orders to keep people at home and businesses locked during the coronavirus outbreak, in Lansing, Michigan, US. (AP)A child sits on a couch found in a street, ravaged by pro-government forces airstrikes, in the town of Ariha in the southern countryside of the Idlib province, Syria. (AFP)A Somali woman sells fruits to a customer standing at a social distancing signage, at the market centre in Hamarweyne district in Mogadishu, Somalia. (REUTERS)The message ‘Stay home’ is projected on to the Great Pyramids at Giza on World Heritage day, in Egypt, Cairo. (Khaled Desouki / AFP)A church volunteer delivers holy candles to worshippers’ homes during Christian Orthodox Easter, in Bucharest, Romania. (Daniel Mihăilescu / AFP)A florist destroys flowers in a greenhouse after demand at markets collapses, in Rafah, Gaza. (Anadolu Agency / Getty)A medic takes a nasal swab from a woman, during the nationwide lockdown, in Najaf, Iraq. (Haidar Hamdani / AFP)The belongings of Rohingya refugees lie on the shore while the boat, which they travelled, remains anchored nearby. Thirty-two Rohingya died in a boat crammed with hundreds of men, women and children after 58 days in the Bay of Bengal after being denied entry by Malaysia and Thailand, in Teknaf, Bangladesh. (Suzauddin Rubel / AFP)A child at one of the migrant camps in Calais, France. (Care4Calais / PA)Workers fumigate and disinfect the streets and stalls at Parklands City Park market during the dawn-to-dusk curfew in Nairobi to help curb the spread of coronavirus, in Nairobi, Kenya. (Luis Tato / AFP)People practice social distancing while stretching along rail tracks in Bandung, Indonesia. (Raisan Al Farisi / Antara Foto)Medical staff in the newly-inaugurated intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients at the Bahrain Defense Force hospital, converted in seven days from a hospital parking lot into a large intensive care unit, in Riffa, Bahrain. (Mazen Mahdi / AFP)A police officer hands a mask to a woman at a bus on the first working day after the Easter holidays, in Madrid, Spain. (Rober Solsona / Europa Press News)