World in focus - best photos for May 1, 2020

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

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  The hospital ship USNS Comfort passes the Statue of Liberty as its departs New York City after providing relief to the city's healthcare system, stressed by the surge of COVID-19 patients. AFP

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  Yemenis react as municipal workers fumigate a street in the old city market of the capital Sanaa. AFP

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  A health worker collects a nasal swab sample from a man on a car to be tested for COVID-19 at a gas station in Santiago, Chile. AFP

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  A flight-attendant walks in the empty hall of Son Sant Joan's Airport in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. AFP

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  Firefighters take part in a national "clap for carers" to show thanks for the work of Britain's NHS at Hartley Wintney, west of London. AFP

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  Winter Palace and the Alexander Column are reflected in a puddle after the rain at the Palace Square in St Petersburg, Russia. AP

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  A youth waits for his turn to enter the San Nicolas Tolentino cemetery for the funeral of his loved one, in Iztapalapa, Mexico City. AP

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  Men fish on the shore of the Paraguay River during the 7th week of the Government's lockdown to prevent spread of the new coronavirus, in Lambare, Paraguay. AP

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  Cemetery workers in protective clothing bury a person who died of COVID-19, at the Vila Formosa cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil. AP

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  A graduate from the medical and nursing school of Faseh University celebrates from a car after receiving the diploma during a drive-thru ceremony to avoid spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Vespasiano, Brazil. Getty

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  Street artists in costumes demonstrate to demand economic help from the authorities to face the crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in Mexico City, Mexico. EPA

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  Two priests fly over Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in a helicopter, carrying the Blessed Sacrament to ask God for the end of the coronavirus pandemic. EPA

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