World in focus - best photos for April 8, 2020

Take a look at some of the best images from around the world in the past 24 hours

A skeleton dummy with a sign reading "Takeaway Food Only" sits at the entrance of a restaurant in Mexico City. AFP

A medical staffer at Sophiahemmet hospital talks on a phone inside a tent for testing and receiving potential coronavirus COVID-19 patients in Stockholm. AFP

A police officer wearing a face mask and gloves presents a flower to a woman on the Motherhood and Beauty Day in Yerevan, Armenia. AFP

A passenger wearing protective clothing sits in the first official train departing from Wuhan. EPA

Passengers wear hazmat suit as they arrive at the Wuhan Wuchang Railway Station in Wuhan. AFP

Lightning flashes in the sky over Rumaithiya district in Kuwait City during a storm. AFP

The pink supermoon rises over St. Louis. April's supermoon is the brightest and largest it will be for all of 2020. AP

A firefighter puts out the embers of a fire near the Central de Abasto, the main food distribution centre in Mexico City. AP Photo

Statues wearing protective face masks are seen at the Shibuya shopping and entertainment district in Tokyo, Japan. REUTERS

Passersby are silhouetted in front of a giant screen reporting Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Japan's response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Tokyo, Japan. REUTERS

Voters wait in line to cast their ballots in the Wisconsin presidential primary election at Marshall High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. EPA

-A man disinfects an intesive care isolation room at the Rafik Hariri public hospital in the Lebanese capital Beirut. AFP

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