World in focus - best photos for March 24, 2020

Take a look at some of the best images from around the world in the past 24 hours

A Bolivian police officer stands guard in the street next to a person using a costume representing the shape of coronavirus in La Paz. AFP

A pregnant woman wearing a face mask as a precautionary measure walks past a street mural in Hong Kong. AFP

Baker Uliana Timoreeva creates a toilet paper cake, in Helsinki, Finland. EPA

A cyclist pedals on the Theodor Heuss Bridge during a moderate rush hour due to restrictions designed to slow down the spread of the new coronavirus in Mainz, Germany. AP Photo

A boy walks wearing a face mask as a preventive measure against the spread of the coronavirus in Esteli, Nicaragua. AFP

A puppy yawns as his owner fills out paperwork to cross back into South Australia from Victoria during the coronavirus outbreak, in Bordertown, Australia. Reuters

People wearing facemasks buy supplies at a crowded vegetable market at Piliyandala on the outskirts of Sri Lanka's capital city Colombo. AFP

People maintain the one-metre distance in-between each other as they stand in a line to buy groceries at a supermarket in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Reuters

A woman shouts at security personnel on the streets in Shaheen Bagh area in New Delhi, India. AFP

US President Donald Trump listens during the daily briefing on the coronavirus at the White House, in Washington, DC. AFP

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