World in focus - best photos for April 16, 2020

Take a look at our pick of the best photos from around the world during the past 24 hours

A farmer dam ridges a potato field on his farm in Newport, Shropshire. Getty Images

Health workers wearing protective face masks watch a member of the contemporary circus company Cirk La Putyka performing at the courtyard of a hospital in Prague, Czech Republic. EPA

Inhabitants with face masks ride a motorcycle as a dog runs near them in the city of El Alto, Bolivia. EPA

A man jogs alone beneath a bridge at Jones Point Park where many seek relief from the state's Stay-At-Home orders implemented to help stem the spread of the coronavirus diseasein Alexandria, Virginia, US. Reuters

A municipal corporate worker walks past a graffiti drawn at a traffic junction urging people to stay at home during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown in Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad. AFP

Gold Coast Suns AFL player Touk Miller trains at home in Gold Coast, Australia. Getty Images

Lee Nak-yon (front second left), a former prime minister and a candidate of the ruling Democratic Party, watches TVs broadcasting the results of exit polls for the parliamentary election at the National Assembly amid the coronavirus outbreak in Seoul, South Korea. Getty Images

'Thank You NHS' and the Manchester worker bee motif is painted on the road outside the NHS Nightingale Hospital North West at Manchester Central in Manchester, United Kingdom. Getty Images

People keep their distance as they exercise outside of a closed La Jolla beach, in San Diego. AP Photo

Carmen Castellanos, 54, wears a protective face mask and face shield as she makes change for a client holding her hand through a protective sheet of plastic hanging over the counter, at El Foquito, the hardware and electric supply store she owns with her brother in the Benito Juarez district of Mexico City. AP Photo

Tulips bloom on a field in Grevenbroich, Germany. Reuters

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