Here are some of the most striking images taken from around the world over the past week.
Staff members disinfect a railway station in Moscow, Russia, on March 19, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), attends the virtual 73rd World Health Assembly (WHA) during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Geneva, Switzerland, May 19, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]
Staff members at a high school welcome students as schools reopen following the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Seoul, on March 20, 2020. [Photo/Agencies]
People stand in a queue to receive food aid amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Pretoria, South Africa, May 20, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]
An NHS worker reacts at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital during the Clap for our Carers campaign in support of the NHS, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), London, May 21, 2020. [Photo/Agencies]
A teacher prepares a tablet showing the image of a student during a "cyber-graduation" ceremony at a high school in Manila, the Philippines, on May 22, 2020. Some 179 students took part in the "cyber-graduation" ceremony by means of robots and social media as the ban on mass gatherings was still implemented in the Philippines to prevent the spread of COVID-19. [Photo/Xinhua]
Soldiers look at the debris of a plane after it crashed in a residential area near an airport in Karachi, Pakistan, May 22, 2020. [Photo/Agencies]
Gravediggers wearing protective suits carry the coffin of a person who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at Vila Formosa cemetery, Brazil's biggest cemetery, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 22, 2020. The World Health Organization declared Latin America "a new epicenter" of the coronavirus pandemic. [Photo/Agencies]
Lao and Chinese workers and engineers from China Railway No 2 Engineering Group work together to lay the tracks through the Ban Nong Khay Tunnel, in Vientiane province, some 60 km to the north of capital Vientiane, Laos, on May 23, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]
A man relaxes at Brooklyn's Brighton Beach on Memorial Day weekend in New York City on May 24, 2020. [Photo/Agencies]
