Demonstrators in traditional dance costumes march against the military coup in Mandalay, Myanmar, Friday, February 12, 2021. Myanmar's coup leader used the country's Union Day holiday on Friday to call on people to work with the military if they want democracy, a request likely to be met with derision by protesters who are pushing for the release from detention of their country's elected leaders. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A demonstrator is detained by police officers during a protest against the military coup in Mawlamyine, Myanmar, February 12, 2021. (Photo by Than Lwin Times via Reuters)





A demonstrator flashes the three-finger salute while joining a protest in front of the Chinese embassy in Yangon, Myanmar, February 12, 2021. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A Muslim woman takes part in Friday prayers at the Dome of the Rock Mosque in the Al Aqsa Mosque complex in the Old City of Jerusalem, which has reopened to visitors following a third lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, Friday, February 12, 2021. (Photo by Mahmoud Illean/AP Photo)





A man is sprayed with disinfectant as he enters the Seng Guan temple in Chinatown during Lunar New Year in Manila, Philippines, February 12, 2021. (Photo by Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)





A worker disinfects Thean Hou Temple during Lunar New Year celebrations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia February 12, 2021. (Photo by Lim Huey Teng/Reuters)





A man wearing a mask prays inside a temple in Chinatown during Lunar New Year in Manila, Philippines, February 12, 2021. (Photo by Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)





A man can be seen at a lantern display for River Hongbao festivity at the Gardens by the Bay, as part of the Lunar New Year celebration on February 11, 2021 in Singapore. The Chinese diaspora of Southeast Asia is celebrating a somewhat subdued Lunar New Year, as Covid-19 restrictions cut into what is traditionally a time for people to meet their relatives and take part in celebrations with extended families. In Singapore, where the spread of Covid-19 has been less extensive, each household will be permitted to have only up to 8 visitors per day, and authorities are encouraging the ethnic Chinese majority to visit no more than two households. (Photo by Ore Huiying/Getty Images)





Divers perform an underwater lion dance at KLCC Aquaria during Lunar New Year celebrations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on February 12, 2021. (Photo by Lim Huey Teng/Reuters)





A woman wearing a protective mask holds an offering at Thean Hou Temple during Lunar New Year celebrations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia February 12, 2021. (Photo by Lim Huey Teng/Reuters)





People attend celebrations for the Lunar New Year at a Chinese temple in Samut Prakan province, Thailand, February 12, 2021. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





Divers perform an underwater dragon and mermaid show during Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations at an aquarium in Jakarta, Indonesia, February 12, 2021. (Photo by Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana/Reuters)





A girl wearing a protective mask and face shield holds incense sticks while praying with her mother at the Surya Dharma temple during the Lunar New Year celebrations in Pekanbaru, Riau province, Indonesia, February 12, 2021. (Photo by FB Anggoro/Antara Foto via Reuters)





A samba school member offers herbs during a ceremony marking the symbolic start of Carnival at the Samba Museum during the COVID-19 pandemic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, February 12, 2021. The school performed a cleansing ceremony at a time that normally would be the start of four days of parades and parties, but this year Carnival will mostly take place online after city officials canceled festivities due to the pandemic. (Photo by Silvia Izquierdo/AP Photo)





Anilson Costa, reveller of the annual block party “Ceu na Terra”, walks along the Santa Teresa neighborhood where the block party used to be celebrated, as Carnival celebrations have been canceled, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on February 12, 2021. (Photo by Pilar Olivares/Reuters)





Businessman Andre Basto, 35, wears a costume which he would wear during the Carnival celebrations which would be held from February 12 until February 17, but were cancelled due the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on February 11, 2021. “The city will try a different way to live without the carnival, which is so unusual to a city like Rio de Janeiro. We are also so used to our problems and chaos and so much wrong things that it is going to be only one more problem to the city, and it is really sad”. Basto said. (Photo by Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)





Giulia Tucci and her husband Marcelo Azevedo wear costumes which they would wear during the Carnival celebrations which would be held from February 12 until February 17, but were cancelled due the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on February 9, 2021. “Carnival for me means resistance and joy, and the people occupying the streets during the carnival celebrations had been also a political resistance movement, but this year it is necessary to not have these celebrations and the real resistance is to avoid these streets occupations and being at home”. Tucci said. (Photo by Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)





Teacher Juliana Motta, 34, wears a costume which she would wear during the Carnival celebrations which would be held from February 12 until February 17, but were cancelled due the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on February 9, 2021. “It is sad, but it's necessary, it is a necessary temporary evil, it hurts but it is transient” Motta said about not having Carnival celebrations. (Photo by Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)





Architect Helena Schmidt, 37, wears a costume which she would wear during the Carnival celebrations which would be held from February 12 until February 17, but were cancelled due the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on February 10, 2021. “It is a not ending sadness, we lose the happiness we have to move on all the year, without the carnival we lose the beauty, the child side of people. It is when we forget all the problems, so we miss something in the city without the Carnival”, Schmidt said. (Photo by Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)





Marcus Vinicius Araujo, 25, wears a costume which he would wear during the Carnival celebrations which would be held from February 12 until February 17, but were cancelled due the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on February 10, 2021. “It is a moment of understanding which we need to live. We are not celebrating Carnival now, but we are going to party from home, respecting the health security protocols and getting ready to come back on the next carnival with the usual happiness”, Araujo said. (Photo by Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)





Actor Dandara Machado Abreu, 32, wears a costume which she would wear during the Carnival celebrations which would be held from February 12 until February 17, but were cancelled due the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on February 11, 2021. “Actually I haven't accepted that we won't have the carnival yet, I think it is so sad, all this process, the pandemic, culminating in not having Carnival makes the sadness even bigger” Abreu said. (Photo by Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)