A Palestinian fisherman repairs his net at a beach amid the coronavirus disease restrictions, in the northern Gaza Strip. REUTERS
Residents wearing masks on their way home after a day's work at central Abu Dhabi. Victor Besa/The National
A Talabat driver is all thumbs up at central Abu Dhabi. Victor Besa/The National
A medical staff works inside a lab for analysing the coronavirus tests, at Rafik Hariri University Hospital, in Beirut, Lebanon. REUTERS
A worker disinfects a room where patients undergo tests for the coronavirus disease at Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon. REUTERS
Fatiha Amahrane, director of Mansour Eddahbi college, organises students into social distancing at the entrance to the Mansour Eddahbi College in the Derb El Kabir district at the AL Fida prefecture in Casablanca, Morocco. Today it is the start of the school year in Casablanca, with a delayed start due to the COVID-19 pandemic. AP Photo
Student Imane Date disinfects his hands in his classroom at Mansour Eddahbi college in the Derb El Kabir district of the AL Fida prefecture in Casablanca, Morocco. Today it is the start of the school year in Casablanca, with a delayed start due to the COVID-19 pandemic. AP Photo
Tunisian artists and cultural workers observe a sit-in in front the opera theatre in the capital Tunis amid the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Tunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi announced the ban on all gatherings, and reiterated the obligation to wear the mask in order to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, which threatens to saturate hospitals. AFP
Tunisian Health Minister Faouzi Mehdi speaks during a press conference with the Minister of the Interior Taoufik Charfeddine in Tunis, Tunisia. According to Mehdi, his ministry is currently working to increase the number of resuscitation beds through the creation of field hospitals in cooperation with the ministry of National Defense and civil society, in an effort to ease the strain on hospitals that are under pressure from the increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases. EPA
A woman takes a coronavirus test at the Ankara City Hospital in Ankara, Turkey. As coronavirus cases continue to rise around the globe, Turkey is also seeing a new rise in cases as it goes through a second peak of the first wave of the virus. Ankara, the nation’s capital has the highest number of confirmed cases in the country according to figures from the health ministry. In a recent press conference Health Minister Fahrettin Koca acknowledged that the daily coronavirus figures published by the health ministry are not including asymptomatic people, causing fears to grow around the true number of cases across the country. Getty Images
Medical staff tend to a COVID-19 patient at the Ankara City Hospital, Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in Ankara, Turkey. Getty Images
A Palestinian boy wearing a protective face mask looks through an opening in a sheet as he watches people harvest dates amid the coronavirus disease restrictions, in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. REUTERS
A Palestinian fisherman repairs his net at a beach amid the coronavirus disease restrictions, in the northern Gaza Strip. REUTERS
Residents wearing masks on their way home after a day's work at central Abu Dhabi. Victor Besa/The National
A Talabat driver is all thumbs up at central Abu Dhabi. Victor Besa/The National
A medical staff works inside a lab for analysing the coronavirus tests, at Rafik Hariri University Hospital, in Beirut, Lebanon. REUTERS
A worker disinfects a room where patients undergo tests for the coronavirus disease at Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon. REUTERS
Fatiha Amahrane, director of Mansour Eddahbi college, organises students into social distancing at the entrance to the Mansour Eddahbi College in the Derb El Kabir district at the AL Fida prefecture in Casablanca, Morocco. Today it is the start of the school year in Casablanca, with a delayed start due to the COVID-19 pandemic. AP Photo
Student Imane Date disinfects his hands in his classroom at Mansour Eddahbi college in the Derb El Kabir district of the AL Fida prefecture in Casablanca, Morocco. Today it is the start of the school year in Casablanca, with a delayed start due to the COVID-19 pandemic. AP Photo
Tunisian artists and cultural workers observe a sit-in in front the opera theatre in the capital Tunis amid the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Tunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi announced the ban on all gatherings, and reiterated the obligation to wear the mask in order to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, which threatens to saturate hospitals. AFP
Tunisian Health Minister Faouzi Mehdi speaks during a press conference with the Minister of the Interior Taoufik Charfeddine in Tunis, Tunisia. According to Mehdi, his ministry is currently working to increase the number of resuscitation beds through the creation of field hospitals in cooperation with the ministry of National Defense and civil society, in an effort to ease the strain on hospitals that are under pressure from the increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases. EPA
A woman takes a coronavirus test at the Ankara City Hospital in Ankara, Turkey. As coronavirus cases continue to rise around the globe, Turkey is also seeing a new rise in cases as it goes through a second peak of the first wave of the virus. Ankara, the nation’s capital has the highest number of confirmed cases in the country according to figures from the health ministry. In a recent press conference Health Minister Fahrettin Koca acknowledged that the daily coronavirus figures published by the health ministry are not including asymptomatic people, causing fears to grow around the true number of cases across the country. Getty Images
Medical staff tend to a COVID-19 patient at the Ankara City Hospital, Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in Ankara, Turkey. Getty Images
A Palestinian boy wearing a protective face mask looks through an opening in a sheet as he watches people harvest dates amid the coronavirus disease restrictions, in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. REUTERS
A Palestinian fisherman repairs his net at a beach amid the coronavirus disease restrictions, in the northern Gaza Strip. REUTERS
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