Xinhua Photos of the Day (March 27)

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

Aerial photo taken on March 26, 2020 shows staff on duty checking health QR code of drivers and passengers at an expressway toll-gate in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province. Traffic flow at highway exits increased due to a growing number of people returned as Wuhan speeds up the resumption of work and production. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)

Photo taken on March 26, 2020 shows a field hospital at the University Stadium in Lisbon, Portugal. (Photo by Pedro Fiuza/Xinhua)

Photo taken on March 24, 2020 shows beds at Espacio Riesco Convention Center in Santiago, capital of Chile. The center will be converted into a temporary hospital for patients infected with COVID-19. (Xinhua)

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud attends the extraordinary G20 leaders' virtual summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 26, 2020. Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud called on Thursday upon the G20 countries to take responsibility for combating the COVID-19 pandemic. (Department of Public Information of Saudi Arabia/Handout via Xinhua)

Kuwaiti citizens evacuated from abroad are seen inside a plane at Kuwait International Airport in Farwaniya Governorate, Kuwait, on March 26, 2020. (Photo by Asad/Xinhua)

Photo taken on March 25, 2020 shows empty bus stations in downtown Algiers, Algeria. (Xinhua)

Few people are seen at the Grand Central Station in New York, the United States, on March 26, 2020. The United States reported 82,404 confirmed COVID-19 cases as of 6 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time on Thursday (2200 GMT), according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. The United States has surpassed China to become the country with the most COVID-19 cases in the world, according to the CSSE. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)

Photo taken on March 25, 2020 shows an empty street in York, Britain. (Photo by Craig Brough/Xinhua)

Boys are seen near a barricade at a village during the lockdown due to the COVID-19 outbreak, on the outskirts of Agartala, India's northeast state of Tripura, on March 26, 2020. (Str/Xinhua)

UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) fighters wearing face masks take positions during clashes with East-based Libyan National Army (LNA) at Ain-Zara frontline in Tripoli, Libya, March 25, 2020. The Minister of Health of Libya's UN-backed government Ehmid Bin Omar Tuesday announced the first novel coronavirus infection in the country. (Photo by Amru Salahuddien/Xinhua)

A car runs on a highway in Tehran, Iran, March 25, 2020. (Photo by Ahmad Halabisaz/Xinhua)

A girl walks under peach trees in Hanyuan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, March 26, 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Xi)

People visit a snack street in Haikou, capital of south China's Hainan Province, March 26, 2020. South China's island province of Hainan on Tuesday reduced its existing number of cases of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to zero. People's life here is gradually returning to normal. (Xinhua/Guo Cheng)

Aerial photo taken on March 26, 2020 shows a volcano covered by snow at the Ulan Hada volcano group in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Peng Yuan)■