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Beijing, March 22 (Xinhua) -- The world in the past 24hrs. A selection of the best daily press photos from Xinhua.

A man walks on the Bolivar Square in Bogota, Colombia, March 20, 2020. The Colombian capital of Bogota began on Friday the mandatory isolation drill decreed by mayor Claudia Lopez in order to prepare for a quarantine aimed at containing the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Jhon Paz/Xinhua)

Few passengers are seen on a train in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 20, 2020. Argentine President Alberto Fernandez asked the people to unite and comply with the mandatory quarantine placed until March 31 to help combat the novel coronavirus pandemic. (Xinhua/Martin Zabala)

Photo taken on March 21, 2020 shows empty shelves of a supermarket in London, Britain. (Xinhua)

Photo taken on March 21, 2020 shows packed medical supplies, which will be transported to Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province. Medical supplies donated to African countries by Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation were packed and ready for shipping. (Xinhua/Tian Jianchuan)

Airport staff unload boxes of face masks and medical supplies from an airplane of Air China, in Athens, Greece, on March 21, 2020. Approximately eight tons of medical supplies provided by the Chinese government to Greece after Athens' urgent request arrived on Saturday morning at Athens international airport on an Air China flight. The aid consists of 550,000 masks and sets of protective gear, according to a release issued by the Chinese embassy in Greece. (Xinhua/Marios Lolos)

Members of an anti-epidemic expert team pose for a group photo before leaving for Serbia at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, March 21, 2020. A team of 6 anti-epidemic experts, set up by the Health Commission of Guangdong Province, left Guangzhou on Saturday with medical supplies to aid the anti-coronavirus fight in Serbia. (China's Anti-Epidemic Expert Team to Serbia/Handout via Xinhua)

A worker carries bags of relief goods that will be distributed to communities in Quezon City, the Philippines on March 21, 2020. The rising number of COVID-19 cases forced the Philippine government to place the main island of Luzon, including Metro Manila, under a 30-day "enhanced community quarantine" on Monday to restrict the movement of people in an effort to slow down the COVID-19 infection. (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali)

Zhang Xinglong shows his clothes with medical team members' signatures in Xiangyang, central China's Hubei Province, March 21, 2020. Zhang Xinglong is a chef of a restaurant that served medical workers from Liaoning providing medical aid in Xiangyang. A total of 389 medical workers from northeast China's Liaoning Province left Xiangyang on March 21, as the epidemic situation has been greatly eased. (Xinhua/Xie Jianfei)

Nurses hold hands in surgical gloves with cheer up for Wuhan written on at the makeshift Huoshenshan (Fire God Mountain) Hospital in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, March 20, 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Yuguo)

A customs officer answers questions for inbound passengers on a flight at the Capital International Airport in Beijing, capital of China, March 18, 2020. (Xinhua/Chen Zhonghao)

Photo taken on March 19, 2020 shows an inflatable hospital in Hidalgo, Mexico. (Str/Xinhua)

Photo taken on March 20, 2020 shows a closed border crossing in Surrey, Canada. At midnight on Friday the land border between Canada and the United States was closed to all non-essential travel in an effort to stem the spread of COVID-19. (Photo by Liang Sen/Xinhua)

Photo taken on March 20, 2020 shows a closed shopping mall in Los Angeles, California, the United States. California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Thursday evening a statewide stay-at-home order for the most populous U.S. state in response to the rapid spread of COVID-19. The governor's order went into effect immediately and is in place until further notice. (Photo by Qian Weizhong/Xinhua)

The combo photo shows people enjoying themselves at the Bondi Beach on March 20, 2020 (up) and the empty Bondi Beach after being closed on March 21, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. Australia's iconic Bondi Beach was closed after hundreds of beachgoers crowded on the sand on Friday ignoring the ongoing social distancing guidelines. (Xinhua/Bai Xuefei)

A truck splashes water on a road in the capital Damascus, Syria, on March 20, 2020. The Syrian government in cooperation with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) organized a cleaning campaign in the streets of the capital Damascus on Friday as part of the procedures taken against the novel coronavirus. (Photo by Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua)

Indian traffic police conduct an awareness campaign to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, in Bangalore, India, March 21, 2020. (Str/Xinhua)

Photo taken on March 20, 2020 shows the sunset scenery from the urban installation Greeting to the Sun in Zadar, Croatia. (Dino Stanin/Pixsell via Xinhua)