AP PHOTOS: Poignant moments, anxiety amid a virus outbreak
A couple kiss at the Barcelona airport, Spain, March 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
A worker sprays disinfectant as sanitization operations against Coronavirus are carried out in the museum hosted by the Maschio Angioino medieval castle, in Naples, Italy, March 10, 2020. (Alessandro Pone/LaPresse via AP)
General view of Mestalla stadium during the Champions League round of 16 second leg soccer match between Valencia and Atalanta in Valencia, Spain, March 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
An elderly woman wears a face mask as she shops at a food market in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
A homeless man wearing a mask sleeps in the doorway of a building, in Barcelona, Spain, March 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
A taxi driver, wearing a protective mask as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, drives his American classic car with tourists in Havana, Cuba, March 13, 2020. (AP Photo / Ramon Espinosa)
Yirmeyahu Gourarie performs a Purim reading from the Book of Esther for residents under self-quarantine due to potential exposure to the new coronavirus, March 9, 2020, in New Rochelle, N.Y. In Westchester County, student volunteers from a Jewish secondary school were fanning out in teams to read the megillah on Monday evening and during the day Tuesday outside the homes of about 120 families from the community who are quarantined. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
The highway leading to Barcelona is seen empty of cars, March 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
A man looks at a sign at a strip club advertising "coronavirus-free lap dances" March 13, 2020, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Firemen spray disinfectants outside a public market in Manila, Philippines, March 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Travelers wearing protective masks look at a smart phone at the Ministro Pistarini International Airport, in Ezeiza on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, March 13, 2020. Starting next Tuesday, Argentina is banning flights from the U.S., Europe and China, as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus. The vast majority of people recover from the new virus. (AP Photo/Marcos Brindicci)
A medical staffer watches from a tent at one of the emergency structures that were set up to ease procedures at the Brescia hospital, northern Italy, March 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
An employee in protective gears sprays disinfectant at the main exhibition tank at the Sea World at Jaya Ancol Dream Park as it is closed for public in the wake of coronavirus outbreak in Jakarta, Indonesia, March 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
People applaud from their houses in support of the medical staff that are working in COVID-19 outbreak in Rivas Vaciamadrid, Spain, March 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
Paramedics treat a patient infected with the new coronavirus, at a hospital in Tehran, Iran, March 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Mohammad Ghadamali)
People wave and clap their hands as a banner reading everything will be alright is displayed at right, at the Garbatella neighborhood, in Rome, March 14, 2020. The nationwide lockdown to slow coronavirus is still early days for much of Italy, but Italians are already showing signs of solidarity with flash mob calls circulating on social media for people to ''gather'' on their balconies at certain hours, either to play music or to give each other a round of applause. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Carrying multiple people who have tested positive for COVID-19, the Grand Princess maintains a holding pattern about 30 miles off the coast of San Francisco, Sunday, March 8, 2020. The cruise ship is scheduled to dock at the Port of Oakland on Monday. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
A teacher works in an empty classroom at the Pompeu Fabra university in Barcelona, Spain, March 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Tourists wear face masks as news about the coronavirus is seen in a reflection off a glass surface in New York's Times Square, March 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
New York Stock Exchange Floor Governor Brendan Connolly, left, works with traders Peter Tuchman, John Panin and Sal Suarino, second left to right, on the floor of the NYSE, March 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Judie Shape, left, who has tested positive for the coronavirus, waves to her daughter, Lori Spencer, right, March 11, 2020, as they visit on the phone and look at each other through a window at the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., near Seattle. In-person visits are not allowed at the nursing home. The vast majority of people recover from the new coronavirus. According to the World Health Organization, most people recover in about two to six weeks, depending on the severity of the illness. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
It has been a week of global cancellations from vacations, to sporting events, to flights after the spread of the new coronavirus.
Associated Press photographers from Washington state to Italy have captured touching moments, from family conversations through a window at a Seattle nursing home to home-bound Italians singing from their balconies.
Millions of people were holing up at home, stocking up on supplies and keeping a wary eye on how close they get to friends and neighbors as fear of the coronavirus spread to more places around the world.
It’s a reality Asia has been living with for months, but while the focus of the pandemic appears to be shifting away from its original epicenter in China, many in Asia continue to urge vigilance against anything that might hurt hard-won gains.