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This Week in Pictures: 28 March - 3 April

Sputnik

As the deadly coronavirus pandemic continues to march across the Earth, people are getting used to new conditions as countries worldwide adopt stricter measures to deal with the virus, including self-isolation. 

This week hasn't brought good news as the number of coronavirus cases has exceed one million and the number of coronavirus-related deaths worldwide has reached 30,000, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

In total, the disease has been detected in nearly 200 countries and territories.

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Wedding dress and evening wear designer Friederike Jorzig adjusts a mannequin wearing a wedding dress with matching protective mask in her store Chiton in Berlin on March 31, 2020 as the Germany continue to battle the Covid-19 corona virus pandemic. As all weddings and events have been cancelled, the German fashion designer are creating fashionable facemasks in her workshop, selling them in her shop in Berlin's Schoeneberg district.
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Office workers wearing face masks amid concerns over the COVID-19 novel coronavirus pose for photos with blossoms during their lunch break in central Seoul on March 31, 2020.
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Backpacker and Spanish language student Lola Daehler, from the U.S., jumps into the water after she decided to stay in Guatemala, where she feels safer to confront the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in San Pedro La Laguna, Solola, Guatemala March 27, 2020.
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Police inspector Rajesh Babu (C) wearing a coronavirus-themed helmet speaks to motorists at a checkpoint during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Chennai on March 28, 2020. One minute they're dancing in the street in comical coronavirus helmets, the next they're seen beating people for flouting a nationwide lockdown -- Indian police have played good cop, bad cop in a bid to halt the spread of coronavirus. The streets of India's cities have been largely deserted for more than a week of the government's 21-day lockdown -- no mean feat in a country of 1.3 billion people famed for their flexible attitude towards authority.
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Panji, 8, wears an animal-shaped face mask amid the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 2, 2020.
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Vietnamese belly dancing instructor Than Ngoc Ha Van holds a class for her students through a live video app on her laptop amid concerns of the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Hanoi on March 27, 2020.
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A man wearing an alternative mask poses for a photograph in Kampala, on April 1, 2020.
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A hotel employee wearing a protective suit sprays disinfectant on an arriving guest, as a preventative measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Wuhan, China's central Hubei province on March 29, 2020, a day after travel restrictions into the city were eased following the outbreak.
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Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin visit a treatment block in one's of the capital's hospitals
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Franciscan monks pray in front of the closed door of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the Christian quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem on March 27, 2020, during the novel coronavirus crisis against which Israel took strict measures.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a video conference with members of the Russian government
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The Aerial picture shows boatmen waiting for passengers docked on the bank of a river during a government-imposed lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Dhaka on March 28, 2020.
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A young woman on Red Square in Moscow
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US Naval Hospital Ship Comfort is pictured upon the arrival in New York City Harbor amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in New York, the United States.
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A cat on a deserted street of Baku, Azerbaijan.
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Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and Russia's ambassador in Venezuela Sergey Melik-Bagdasarov, touch their elbows while wearing masks due to coronavirus disease while (COVID-19) outbreak at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela March 30, 2020.
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T-34 tanks after undergoing full repair on the Alabino firing ground.
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Aerial view shows Finland's freediver Kristian Maki-Jussila, 37, swimming under the ice of a frozen lake on March 28, 2020 near Vaasa, Finland. On March 21, 2020, Kristian Maki-Jussila did the unofficial world record of swimming distance freediving in bathing suit of 101m, in a frozen lake in Northern Finland.
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A municipal worker sprays disinfectant on migrant workers before they board a bus to return to their villages, during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Lucknow, India, March 30, 2020.
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A municipal worker wearing a protective outfit passes by hairdresser shop while spraying chemicals during the disinfection of an area of the Romanian capital Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, March 31, 2020 as authorities attempt to limit the spread of the new coronavirus. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.
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An Afghan boy holds protective face masks for sale in downtown, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Kabul, Afghanistan March 29, 2020.
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A young woman riding a train in Moscow metro.
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Migrant workers travel on crowded buses as they return to their villages, during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ghaziabad, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, March 29, 2020.
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A daughter of a migrant laborer who has been quarantined with her parents while they were on their way to their village, waits for her father to return with food packets at a government school in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, March 31, 2020. India is adding more resources to tackle its increase in coronavirus cases by announcing that private hospitals may be requisitioned to help treat virus patients, and turning railway cars and a motor racing circuit into makeshift quarantine facilities. The steps were taken after a nationwide lockdown announced last week by Prime Minister Narendra Modi led to a mass exodus of migrant workers from cities to their villages, often on foot and without food and water, raising fears that the virus may have reached to the countryside, where health care facilities are limited.
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People spend time at the beach despite a Pinellas County beach closure due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions in Treasure Island, Florida, US April 1, 2020.
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A general view of shacks during a nationwide 21 day lockdown in an attempt to contain the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Umlazi township near Durban, South Africa, March 31, 2020.
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Medical specialists checking a train that arrived from Moscow to Kiev.
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A young woman wearing a mask in the centre of Moscow.
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A French farmer drives his tractor to prepare the land before sugar beets sowing in Anneux, France, March 27, 2020. France appealed on Tuesday to workers laid off by the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis to help farmers pick fruit and vegetables that will otherwise be left to rot in the fields due to a shortage of seasonal workers. Picture taken with a drone.
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men push trolleys as they pass by billboards urging people to stay in their homes and keeping with government restrictions amid coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Ashdod, Israel April 1, 2020.
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