Xinhua Photos of the Day (Feb. 6)

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BEIJING, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- The world in the past 24hrs. A selection of the best daily press photos from Xinhua.

Medical workers help the first batch of patients infected with the novel coronavirus move into their isolation wards at Huoshenshan (Fire God Mountain) Hospital in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Feb. 4, 2020. A newly-built hospital in Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China, began accepting patients infected with the virus on Tuesday. The first batch of patients are being transferred to Huoshenshan Hospital, which was delivered on Sunday after a 10-day construction. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)

Professor Cao Bin, head of the antiviral drug Remdesivir's clinical trial program, speaks at a conference in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Feb. 5, 2020. The registration for clinical trials on the antiviral drug Remdesivir has been approved, and the first batch of pneumonia patients infected by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) are expected to start taking the drug on Thursday, according to an official conference Wednesday. (Xinhua/Cheng Min)

Hao Tiedan (R) and his wife Zhang Saihong touch their daughter's hand at a hospital in Taiyuan, north China's Shanxi Province, Feb. 4, 2020. Hao Tiedan is a member of the third batch of a medical team in Shanxi that left for Hubei on Wednesday to fight against the novel coronavirus. His daughter was born just two days ago. (Xinhua/Cao Yang)

Patients infected with the novel coronavirus are seen at a makeshift hospital converted from an exhibition center in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Feb. 5, 2020. The makeshift hospital converted from an exhibition center in China's epidemic-hit Wuhan city began accepting patients Wednesday. The hospital can provide about 1,600 beds to infected patients. (Xinhua/Xiong Qi)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (R, back) tears up what appeared to be a copy of the president's speech during U.S. President Donald Trump's (front) State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., the United States, Feb. 4, 2020. U.S. President Donald Trump delivered his third State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who orchestrated the chamber's impeachment drive against Trump and was seated behind him during the address, reached out to shake his hand, which the president ignored. She tore up what appeared to be a copy of the president's speech at the end. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)

Syrian air defense missile is seen in the sky over Damascus, capital of Syria, Feb. 6, 2020. Syria's air defense was triggered early Thursday by a fresh Israeli missile attack over the capital Damascus, Syrian state TV reported.

The missiles, launched from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, targeted areas west of Damascus, as people there heard powerful explosions, said the report.

The air defense intercepted several missiles, and the exact targets are not clear, it said. (Photo by Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua)

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks during a press conference following a vote in the U.S. Senate to acquit President Donald Trump on impeachment on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., the United States, Feb. 5, 2020. U.S. President Donald Trump was acquitted on Wednesday afternoon by the Senate after the chamber voted down both articles of impeachment against him that the House approved late last year. (Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua)

A tank is seen during a mock battle of the Defence Expo in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, on Feb. 5, 2020. (Str/Xinhua)

Rescuers work beside the plane that skidded off the runway at Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen International Airport, Turkey, on Feb. 5, 2020. At least 120 people were wounded when a plane slid off the runway at Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen International Airport on Wednesday, Istanbul governor Ali Yerlikaya told reporters. (Xinhua/Xu Suhui)

Martinas Geben (top) of Zalgiris Kaunas dunks during the Euroleague basketball regular season match between Lithuania's Zalgiris Kaunas and Greece's Olympiacos Piraeus in Kaunas, Lithuania, Feb. 4, 2020. (Photo by Alfredas Pliadis/Xinhua)

Abraham Liu, Huawei's chief representative to the European Union Institutions, speaks at the company's spring reception in Brussels, Belgium, Feb. 4, 2020. Chinese technology firm Huawei said here on Tuesday that it has decided to set up 5G manufacturing bases in Europe, so that to "truly have 5G for Europe made in Europe." (Xinhua/Zhang Cheng)