Photos: Motherhood in a COVID-19 pandemic

A look at the bonds between mother and child on Mother's Day amid the coronavirus

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Felix Hassebroek pretends to be a fireman, interrupting his mother Naomi as she works from home during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
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Ayse Mehmet (L), whose daughter Sonya Kaygan died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), has tears wiped from her face by her three-year-old granddaughter, also named Ayse, at her home in Enfield, Britain.
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Pregnant nurse Samantha Salinas attends an appointment with her midwives at Birth Center Stone Oak amid a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
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Maria Jose Garcia, 47, an intensive care unit nurse, poses for a portrait while being kissed by her son Cayetano (L), 12, and her daughter Marta,16, on Mother's Day along a street during a lockdown amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Ronda, Spain.
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Maricarmen Moreno, 49, a housewife, poses for a portrait as she is embraced by her daughter Nuria (bottom), 10, and her sons Javier (L), 18, and Daniel, 15, who are considered as a Spanish large family, on Mother's Day along a street during a lockdown amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Ronda, Spain.
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A boy helps his mother to put on a mask, during a countrywide lockdown to combat the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Sidon, Lebanon.
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Rocio Jimenez, 34, a greengrocer, poses for a portrait with her daughter Lola, two months old, on Mother's Day along a street during a lockdown amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Ronda, Spain.
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Doctor Meryem Bouchbika hugs her two young girls before going to bed in her home as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Sale, Morocco.
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Palestinian boy Hamza Ali Mohammed, 2, who was treated for a congenital heart disease in a hospital in Israel and separated from his family for two months due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown, is kissed by his mother upon their reunion at a checkpoint near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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Judie Shape, (C) who has tested positive for the new coronavirus, but isn’t showing symptoms, opens a care package of art supplies from her daughter, Lori Spencer, left, and her son-in-law, Michael Spencer, as they talk on the phone and look at each other through a window at the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., near Seattle.
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Sonia Ortiz, 41, a housewife, poses for a portrait as she is embraced by her son Curro, 4, who has Down's syndrome, on Mother's Day along a street during a lockdown amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Ronda, Spain.
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Photographer Evgenia Danigevich, 27, enjoys the time with her newborn son Platon at home in Moscow, Russia.
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