Here are some of the most striking images from around the world over the past week.
Medical workers wheel a stretcher in front of Maimonides Medical Center in the Brooklyn Borough of New York, Feb 22, 2021. The United States reached the grim milestone of half a million coronavirus deaths on Feb 22, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. [Photo/Xinhua]
Bolivian President Luis Arce looks on as a medical worker administers a dose of Chinese Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine to a recipient in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Feb 25, 2021. Arce attended on Thursday a launching ceremony in Santa Cruz for the nation-wide campaign of COVID-19 vaccine inoculation. [Photo/Xinhua]
Photo taken on Feb 26, 2021, shows the bell tower of the Cathedral of St. Domnius on a foggy day in the city of Split, Croatia's second-largest city. [Photo/Xinhua]
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a COVID-19 pandemic media briefing at 10 Downing Street in London, Feb 22, 2021. Johnson announced that schools in England will reopen from March 8 as part of the "roadmap" to ease the current coronavirus lockdown. [Photo/Agencies]
Photo taken on Feb 24, 2021 shows a "see-through church", a site-specific work entitled "reading between the lines" outside the town of Borgloon, Belgium. Completed in 2011 by the Belgian architects duo Gijs Van Vaerenbergh, the project is 10 meters high and is made of 100 layers and 2,000 columns of steel. [Photo/Xinhua]
The area in front of the Sacre Coeur Basilica is blocked by the police atop the Montmartre in Paris, Feb 24, 2021. France on Wednesday confirmed 31,519 new COVID-19 cases, the biggest one-day jump since mid-November 2020, as worrying situation in some departments forced the authorities to impose partial lockdown to combat the virus resurgence. [Photo/Xinhua]
Staff members from Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo release a Persian fallow deer into the wild at the Jerusalem hills, Feb 23, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
An official displays a First Day Cover marking the issuance of a set of special stamps themed on the COVID-19 vaccination in Jakarta, Indonesia, Feb 26, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
The lunar samples No 001 brought back by China's Chang'e-5 probe is on display at the National Museum of China in Beijing, Feb 27, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha presents two vials of Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Feb 24, 2021. The first batch of COVID-19 vaccines that Thailand ordered from China's Sinovac Biotech arrived in the capital Bangkok Wednesday, putting the country on track to kick-start its national inoculation program. [Photo/Agencies]
