Xinhua Photos of the Day (March 8)

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BEIJING, March 8, 2020 (Xinhua) -- The world in the past 24hrs. A selection of the best daily press photos from Xinhua.

A doctor waves goodbye to transferred patients in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 7, 2020. All patients at the "Wuhan Livingroom" makeshift hospital have been discharged or transferred by Saturday afternoon. The hospital will be fully disinfected and is expected to officially close on Sunday. (Xinhua/Xiong Qi)

A 100-year-old man is discharged from the branch of Hubei's Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital at the Optics Valley in Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei Province, March 7, 2020. The 100-year-old man has recovered and been discharged from hospital Saturday after 13 days of treatment for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), becoming the oldest recovered patient to date. (Photo by Zhao Jiaqing/Xinhua)

File photo taken on May 6, 2011 and provided by Princess Cruises shows the Grand Princess cruise ship. Twenty-one people on the Grand Princess cruise ship have tested positive for COVID-19, including 19 crew members and two passengers, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on March 6, 2020. (Princess Cruises/Handout via Xinhua)

Combo photo shows medical worker Luo Xiaocheng of the Yao ethnic group working at the Fourth People's Hospital of Nanning (above) taken on March 6, 2020 by Cao Yiming and posing for a photo in traditional costumes at a photography studio taken on March 6, 2020 by Zhou Hua in Nanning, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. (Xinhua)

Maintenance engineer Wu Zhenzhen checks an airplane at the Haikou Meilan International Airport in Haikou, south China's Hainan Province, March 6, 2020. Wu Zhenzhen and Lin Chunyan are the only two female maintenance engineers of a maintenance base of the China Southern Airlines in Haikou, who are in charge of the maintenance of aircraft electronics. Due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) , a large number of flights were canceled, but they have become busier in maintaining the airplanes than before. She and her colleagues will work hard to ensure that every plane parked here are in good condition and can be put into use at any time, Lin Chunyan said. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)

Rescuers work at the accident site of a hotel in Quanzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, March 8, 2020. The Xinjia Hotel collapsed around 7:15 p.m. Saturday in Licheng District of the city of Quanzhou, trapping about 70 people. Forty-nine people have been rescued as of 8:20 a.m. Sunday. (Xinhua/Lin Shanchuan)

A crashed passenger bus is seen near the Jisr Baghdad area on the Damascus-Homs highway, Syria, on March 7, 2020. As many as 22 civilians lost their lives and 70 others got wounded on Saturday in the accident on the Damascus-Homs highway, state news agency SANA reported. (Str/Xinhua)

Photo taken on March 6, 2020 shows the shooting scene of online disco live stream at a bar on Huaihai Road in Shanghai, east China. Some bars in Shanghai started to try to use live stream to attract online customers amid the fight against the novel coronavirus outbreak. (Xinhua/Huang Anqi)

Colombian Minister of Health and Social Protection Fernando Ruiz Gomez speaks at a press conference in Bogota, Colombia, on March 6, 2020. The Colombian Ministry of Health confirmed on Friday the country's first case of COVID-19. (Xinhua/Jhon Paz)

A worker produces face masks at a workshop in Suining City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, March 6, 2020. (Photo by Liu Changsong/Xinhua)

German Health Minister Jens Spahn arrives for the EU Health Affairs Council in Brussels, Belgium, on March 6, 2020. (Photo by Riccardo Pareggiani/Xinhua)

Students take an online class at home in a village in Damxung County, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, March 6, 2020. China Telecom's Tibet branch organize personnel to install and debug network lines in remote pastoral areas in northern Tibet to guarantee online classes for local students amid the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (Xinhua/Purbu Zhaxi)■