A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week as people react to the spread of the coronavirus.
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Desiree Henry trains at a golf course in Edmonton, London, following the outbreak of Co-19. A Team GB athlete, she won a bronze medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2016 Rio Olym.
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Playtime in Barcelona on the day after the government eased the lockdown rules. Children in Spain, which has had one of the strictest lockdowns in Europe, are now allowed to leave their homes – with adults – for up to an hour per day.
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A display of signs thanking NHS staff and other key workers, erected by local artist Peter Liversidge in east London.
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Gang members are rounded up during a police operation at Izalco jail during a 24-hour lockdown, ordered by El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, in an attempt to stem an increase in murders in the country.
Amit Dave / Reuters
A health worker uses an infrared thermometer to measure the temperature of a labourer on a construction site in Ahmedabad, India.
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Gloria, who’s 75 and originally from Salvador, shows how big a hug she would give Father Pedro Gonzalez as a “thank you” for the help she is getting through his deliveries to her home in the Bronx, New York. Father Pedro runs a church with the help of volunteers, and has been proing food and other supplies to those who are poor, sick or unable to leave home.
Raneen Sawafta / Reuters
In Nablus in the West Bank, a Palestinian Musharati beats a drum to wake Muslims to have their pre-dawn meal, before they start their day-long fast, during the holy month of Ramadan.
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Capt Tom Moore’s grandson Benjie, in the Great Hall of Bedford School, England, where more than 120,000 birthday cards from around the world are being opened and displayed by staff. World War Two veteran “Captain Tom” celebrated his 100th birthday on Thursday, after raising millions of pounds for the NHS, by walking laps in his back garden in Bedfordshire.
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A South African boy waits with his dog to see a veterinarian at the Mdzananda Animal Clinic in Cape Town, which is currently working under extremely difficult conditions during the Co-19 pandemic.
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A rainbow over the Thames Barrier on the River Thames in London.
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