A look from Pittsburgh to India and beyond in photos as the world adjusts to a new leg of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Family members wearing face masks pay respects to their ancestral cemetery ahead of Chuseok holiday, the Korean version of Thanksgiving Day, at a cemetery in Paju, South Korea, Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021. South Korea’s national cemeteries will be closed during the upcoming Chuseok holiday during the five-day holidays from Sept. 18 to Sept. 22 to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)A Steelers fan holds a vaccine-inspired sign as safety Minkah Fitzpatrick warms up before taking on the Bills Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021, at Highmark Stadium in Buffalo, N.Y. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)Medical workers send off their colleagues leaving to help with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Putian from a provincial hospital in Fuzhou in southeast China’s Fujian province Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021. Putian, a city in southern China that is trying to contain a coronavirus outbreak told the public Sunday not to leave, suspended bus and train service and closed cinemas, bars and other facilities. (Chinatopix via AP)A woman receives the first shot of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine as others wait for their turn in front of pachinko pinball machines at the pachinko parlor Freedom in Osaka, western Japan, Monday, Sept. 13, 2021. A nearby hospital dispatched medical workers to administer the vaccine to 1,500 people in two days at the pinball parlor which became a makeshift vaccination site. (Kyodo News via AP)Students arrive at Herbert H. Lehman High School in the Bronx on Monday, Sept. 13, 2021. New York City’s classrooms reopened on Monday to roughly a million children, most of whom were returning for the first time since the United States’ largest school system closed in March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)Tina Streit, left, and Tish Norton, both volunteers for Veterans Leadership Program, organize boxes of food during a food distribution at the organization’s Strip District offices on Monday, Sept. 13, 2021. The organization partnered with Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank in 2020 to provide food to veterans and military families in need. “There’s still a drastic need with local veterans facing food insecurity,” said Toshua Jarrett, Veterans Leadership Program’s chief development officer. Many veterans prioritize rent payments and vehicle and transportation costs while continuing to search for jobs to replace those lost during the pandemic. “So food is the last thing on the list for a lot of veterans,” Jarrett said. Still, some face multiple struggles. Last month, she said, Veterans Leadership Program helped one veteran by paying $26,000 owed in rent, which was three years in arrears. “He was too humble to ask for that much,” she said. “He’d lost his job, and his wife was suffering from breast cancer.” The organization distributes food once a month in the Strip District, and once a month in Johnstown. (Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)Students arrive for the first day of the school year at Mott Hall Bridges Academy in Brooklyn on Monday, Sept. 13, 2021. New York City’s classrooms reopened on Monday to roughly a million children, most of whom were returning for the first time since the United States’ largest school system closed in March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)Students arrive for the first day of the school year at Mott Hall Bridges Academy in Brooklyn on Monday, Sept. 13, 2021. New York City’s classrooms reopened on Monday to roughly a million children, most of whom were returning for the first time since the United States’ largest school system closed in March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)Mariangelie Meija, of Mount Oliver, with her children Yurani, 2, and Jonas, 1, who is being held for her by a vaccine provider, receives a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic run by the Allegheny County Health Department at Casa San Jose, a non-profit serving Latino immigrants, Tuesday, September 14, 2021, in Beechview. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra music director Manfred Honeck leads the full orchestra in rehearsal of Tchaikovsky’s “Polonaise from Eugene Onegin” at their first rehearsal in 18 months because of the coronavirus pandemic, Tuesday, Sep. 14, 2021, at Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh. (Pam Panchak/Post-Gazette)Voters take a selfie after casting their ballots at a polling place in the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. California voters decided whether to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday, concluding an idiosyncratic election that has been held in the middle of a pandemic and closely watched as one of the first big indicators of the country’s political direction since President Biden took office. (Ryan Young/The New York Times)Kristin Chenoweth speaks to the audience at Gershwin Theatre in Manhattan on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. With the return of some of its most popular musicals, Broadway’s reopening is gathering steam. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)A worker walks past white flags that were planted as part of artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg’s temporary art installation, “In America: Remember,” in remembrance of Americans who have died of COVID-19, on the National Mall in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. The installation will consist of more than 630,000 flags when completed. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)A Maya spiritual guides participate in a ceremony that was held to protest the country’s 200th independence anniversary from Spain, on Independence Day in Guatemala City, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. Bicentennial celebrations were canceled due to an increase in COVID-19 cases, however, Indigenous communities say the holiday does not represent independence for their people. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)Organ grinder Nicole Salgado kisses her parrot called Blue during the funeral of organ grinder and ¨Chinchinero¨ Hector Lizana, 93, who died from COVID-19, three weeks after his son Manuel also died from COVID-19, in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, Sept.15, 2021. A ¨Chinchinero¨ is an urban street performer in Chile, who plays a bass drum-type percussion instrument with long drumsticks strapped to his back which also involves a rope with a noose tied around the performer’s foot to play the cymbals which also form part of this improvised instrument. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)Faithful wait for Pope Francis’ arrival in the esplanade of the National Shrine in Sastin, in Slovakia, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. Francis first trip since undergoing intestinal surgery in July, marks the restart of his globetrotting papacy after a nearly two-year coronavirus hiatus. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)A woman watches as a health worker inoculates a man during a special vaccination drive for the homeless and migrant workers against COVID-19 in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)A customer uses her mobile phone before the start of a movie show as she sits amid physical distancing markers during the first day of reopening at a cinema in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. Cinemas in several cities shut during the deadly wave of coronavirus outbreak that hit the country in July were allowed to begin reopening with capacity limit as cases decline. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
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