• High school senior pupils walk past a thermal scanner as schools reopen in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province. AFP
    High school senior pupils walk past a thermal scanner as schools reopen in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province. AFP
  • An undated handout photo made available by the British Ministry of Defence of the crew made up of Royal Fleet Auxiliary, Royal Marines, Royal Engineers, and Royal Navy personnel including units from 815 and 845 Naval Air Squadrons, marking out '75', referring to the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe. EPA
    An undated handout photo made available by the British Ministry of Defence of the crew made up of Royal Fleet Auxiliary, Royal Marines, Royal Engineers, and Royal Navy personnel including units from 815 and 845 Naval Air Squadrons, marking out '75', referring to the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe. EPA
  • Youths dressed stormtroopers and Darth Vader patrol in wooden boats around a submerged village to remind residents to stay at home during the enhanced community quarantine in suburban Manila. AFP
    Youths dressed stormtroopers and Darth Vader patrol in wooden boats around a submerged village to remind residents to stay at home during the enhanced community quarantine in suburban Manila. AFP
  • People wearing protective masks wait in line to enter the Central Library in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong. Bloomberg
    People wearing protective masks wait in line to enter the Central Library in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong. Bloomberg
  • People eat in between plastic partitions at the Penguin Eat Shabu hotpot restaurant in Bangkok. AFP
    People eat in between plastic partitions at the Penguin Eat Shabu hotpot restaurant in Bangkok. AFP
  • Representative John Ratcliffe, centre, arrives to a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, and is greeted by committee Chairman Senator Richard Burr and Vice Chairman Senator Mark Warner., left. AP Photo
    Representative John Ratcliffe, centre, arrives to a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, and is greeted by committee Chairman Senator Richard Burr and Vice Chairman Senator Mark Warner., left. AP Photo
  • A man and a boy walk in front of a grafitti mural amid the ongoing pandemic in Rome. EPA
    A man and a boy walk in front of a grafitti mural amid the ongoing pandemic in Rome. EPA
  • US President Donald Trump participates in a tour of a Honeywell International plant that manufactures N95 masks in Phoenix, Arizona. AFP
    US President Donald Trump participates in a tour of a Honeywell International plant that manufactures N95 masks in Phoenix, Arizona. AFP
  • People have dinner in a so-called quarantine greenhouses in Amsterdam. AFP
    People have dinner in a so-called quarantine greenhouses in Amsterdam. AFP
  • Musicians from Mariachi groups perform during an event to appeal that authorities allow them to work this upcoming Mother's Day in Quito, Ecuador. AP
    Musicians from Mariachi groups perform during an event to appeal that authorities allow them to work this upcoming Mother's Day in Quito, Ecuador. AP

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World in focus - best photos for May 6, 2020

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

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