An employee at SuperSpar Palm Court in Weltevreden Park is seen in personal protective equipment in the bakery while attending to a client, 8 April 2020. The SuperSpar has taken a number of measures to ensure staff safety during the coronavirus pandemic including providing face masks, gloves, and screens at the tills. Additionally, only a certain number of customers are allowed in the store at a time. Picture: Michel Bega
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A selection of some of the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.
An employee at SuperSpar Palm Court in Weltevreden Park is seen in personal protective equipment in the bakery while attending to a client, 8 April 2020. The SuperSpar has taken a number of measures to ensure staff safety during the coronavirus pandemic including providing face masks, gloves, and screens at the tills. Additionally, only a certain number of customers are allowed in the store at a time. Picture: Michel Begamore
Local residents start a fight with a municipal worker (C) as they accuse him of allegedly not having sanitised properly at their house in a residential area declared Red Zone for coronavirus by authorities during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Srinagar on April 8, 2020. (Photo by Tauseef MUSTAFA / AFP)more
A military vehicle during a patrol by SAPS and the Army in South Hills, Johannesburg , 8 April 2020 during the lockdown amid the Covid 19 pandemic. Picture: Neil McCartney
This picture taken early on April 8, 2020 shows the closest supermoon to the Earth, also known as a pink moon, behind the cross on a church in downtown Moscow. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)
Picture: Michele Spatari/AFP
Brazilian retired football player Ronaldinho arrives at a hotel in Asuncion where he and his brother will serve house arrest after a judge ordered their release from jail on April 7, 2020. A judge in Paraguay ordered the release of Ronaldinho and his brother Roberto Assis into house arrest after the siblings spent almost exactly a month in jail awaiting trial on charges of using false passports to enter Paraguay. Lawyers for the men posted bail of $1.6 million. (Photo by Norberto DUARTE / AFP)more
Members of the SANDF can be seen at the N1 carousel plaza toll gate during a patrol in Pretoria, 8 April 2020. Picture: Jacques Nelles
A health worker wearing a protective suit prepares to enter two apartment buildings in Kuala Lumpur on April 8, 2020, after they were cordoned off due to a number of cases of individuals with COVID-19 novel coronavirus at the premises. (Photo by Mohd RASFAN / AFP)more
The burnt remains of the administration block of Soshanguve High School can be seen, 8 April 2020, Pretoria. This is the fourth school in the area that has been burnt during the lockdown. Picture: Jacques Nellesmore
A boy stands in front of a graffiti painted by artist Kai 'Uzey' Wohlgemuth featuring a nurse as Superwoman on a wall in Hamm, western Germany, on April 8, 2020 refering to the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19. (Photo by Ina FASSBENDER / AFP)more
A police officer arrests two people that couldn't explain why they were outside during a patrol by SAPS and the army in South Hills, Johannesburg, 8 April 2020 during the lockdown amid the Covid 19 pandemic. Picture: Neil McCartneymore
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An Informal vendor gathers with others outside a municipal office building in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, on April 8, 2020, as they try to obtain a permit for working during the 21 days national lockdown that started on March 27, 2020, in an attempt to halt the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP)more
Informal vendors gather in front of a municipal office building in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, on April 8, 2020, as they try to obtain a permit for working during the 21 days national lockdown that started on March 27, 2020, in an attempt to halt the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by Luca Sola / AFP)more
An inmate does laundry during Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola's launch of Covid-19 screening campaign at the Johannesburg Prison, 8 April 2020. Picture: Nigel Sibanda
Employees of the Bouvy funeral house wear face masks as a protective measure while they stand in respect in front of the coffin of a person who died of the COVID-19 at the cemetery of Kraainem on April 8, 2020 in Brussels before the burial ceremony without any relatives attending for sanitary reasons. (Photo by Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP)more
A health worker checks the body temperature of a man with mobility impairment during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Ahmedabad on April 8, 2020. (Photo by SAM PANTHAKY / AFP)more
An aerial view shows tulip fields in Plomeur, western France on April 8, 2020 on the twenty-third day of a lockdown in France aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the novel coronavirus. (Photo by Damien MEYER / AFP)more
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