Xinhua Photos of the Day (March 12)

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BEIJING, March 12(Xinhua) --The world in the past 24hrs. A selection of the best daily press photos from Xinhua.

A volunteer runs on the corridor of a rehabilitation center based in the Wuhan Vocational College of Software and Engineering to deliver meal in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 11, 2020. The rehabilitation center, converted from the dormitory of the college, is used to host cured coronavirus patients who had been discharged from hospital and were on a 14-day quarantine for medical observation. (Xinhua/Fei Maohua)

Firefighters and local people spray water to extinguish fire at a slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on March 11, 2020. A massive fire swept through one of the largest slums in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka Wednesday, destroying hundreds of homes and leaving thousands displaced. (Str/Xinhua)

A fire brigade vehicle arrives near the area where a Pakistan Air Force (PAF) F-16 fighter jet crashed during a rehearsal ahead of the Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan on March 11, 2020. (Str/Xinhua)

People carry the body of Palestinian teenager Mohammad Hamayel during his funeral in the West Bank city of Nablus, on March 11, 2020. Mohammad Hamayel on Wednesday was killed after he was shot by Israeli forces in clashes in northern West Bank village of Beita, according to Palestinian medical sources. (Photo by Nidal Eshtayeh/Xinhua)

File photo shows former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon (C) arriving at a courthouse in Paris, France, on Feb. 26, 2020. French prosecutors on Tuesday requested an "exemplary sentence" against former Prime Minister Francois Fillon, who was accused of embezzlement of public funds by creating a fake job for his wife. (Photo by Aurelien Morissard/Xinhua)

Rescuers work at the accident site after two subway cars collided in Mexico City, Mexico, March 11, 2020. One person was killed and 41 others were injured in the accident which occurred on Tuesday night, according to an announcement of local metro authority. (NOTIMEX/Handout via Xinhua)

Children take part in a celebration of the Jewish holiday of Purim in Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, Israel, on March 10, 2020. (Photo by Gil Cohen Magen/Xinhua)

People are seen wearing masks in Hong Kong, south China, Feb. 28, 2020. Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) reported on late Wednesday three more newly confirmed COVID-19 cases and updated the total number of the confirmed cases in Hong Kong to 129. (Xinhua/Wang Shen)

A man walks on a commercial street in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, March 11, 2020. (Photo by Bilal Jawich/Xinhua)

The moon rises behind the Yellow Crane Tower, or Huanghelou, a landmark of the city of Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 10, 2020. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)

Jiang Xiuying cuts the hair of a resident at the Fangtingyuan Community in Xicheng District of Beijing, capital of China, on March 11, 2020. (Xinhua/Lan Hongguang)

Combination photo shows a resettlement site under construction in Huanghuatan ecological migration area in Gulang County, on Feb. 18, 2017 (up) and a resettlement site in Huanghuatan ecological migration area in Gulang County, on March 10, 2020 (down), in northwest China's Gansu Province. (Xinhua/Fan Peishen)

Aerial photo taken on March 11, 2020 shows cole flower fields on the bank of the Bailong River in Wenxian County in Longnan, northwest China's Gansu Province. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)

A Lao fisherman fishes in the Mekong River near Vientiane, Laos, on March 10, 2020. (Photo by Kaikeo Saiyasane/Xinhua)

Employees of the Istanbul Municipality wait to disinfect a bus in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 11, 2020. Local authorities in Turkey's biggest city Istanbul on Wednesday speeded up disinfection efforts against the spread of the novel coronavirus after the report of the first confirmed case in the country on Wednesday. (Photo by Yasin Akgul/Xinhua)■