A look at the best news photos from around the world.
April 1, 2020
![A man wearing an alternative mask in Kampala. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni ordered an immediate 14-day nationwide lockdown in a bid to halt the spread of the coronavirus.](https://gdb.voanews.com/22c36a88-73b5-41ac-964e-14f3228237c2_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man wearing an alternative mask in Kampala. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni ordered an immediate 14-day nationwide lockdown in a bid to halt the spread of the coronavirus.
![People wait inside marked areas on a street to receive free rice distributed at a government store during a nationwide lockdown to preventive the spread of the coronavirus, in Hyderabad, India.](https://gdb.voanews.com/798b242d-3c9f-40a9-985a-756fcbe8de85_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People wait inside marked areas on a street to receive free rice distributed at a government store during a nationwide lockdown to preventive the spread of the coronavirus, in Hyderabad, India.
![A medical staff watches from a platform of the Gare d'Austerlitz train station in Paris, France, through the window of a medicalized TGV high speed train before its departure to evacuate patients infected with the COVID-19 from Paris' region hospital to other hospitals in Brittany region.](https://gdb.voanews.com/3d44f7eb-3151-4079-a756-96146549cff0_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A medical staff watches from a platform of the Gare d'Austerlitz train station in Paris, France, through the window of a medicalized TGV high speed train before its departure to evacuate patients infected with the COVID-19 from Paris' region hospital to other hospitals in Brittany region.
![The Swiss Army Eurocopter EC635 flies over the aircrafts of the Swiss Airlines, the Edelweis Air and the Helvetic Airways parked at an airbase in Duebendorf, Switzerland.](https://gdb.voanews.com/c3c50720-4c59-4f31-9666-49161b5be17a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The Swiss Army Eurocopter EC635 flies over the aircrafts of the Swiss Airlines, the Edelweis Air and the Helvetic Airways parked at an airbase in Duebendorf, Switzerland.
![Palestinian fitness trainer and bodybuilding Ahmed Sawi trains at his home in Gaza City.](https://gdb.voanews.com/9021eb2d-8dfb-42dc-9f4a-0704ba8d62aa_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Palestinian fitness trainer and bodybuilding Ahmed Sawi trains at his home in Gaza City.
![This aerial photo shows a deserted Long Bien bridge during the government imposed "complete social isolation" as a preventive measure against the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus in Hanoi, Vietnam.](https://gdb.voanews.com/8d2694d6-23f9-42aa-a0da-e9b0362d138a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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This aerial photo shows a deserted Long Bien bridge during the government imposed "complete social isolation" as a preventive measure against the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus in Hanoi, Vietnam.
![Jason Baird dressed as Spiderman exercises to cheer up local children in Stockport as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Britain.](https://gdb.voanews.com/0020a272-def8-4dab-a644-a09c10c4914b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Jason Baird dressed as Spiderman exercises to cheer up local children in Stockport as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Britain.
![A woman piles up toilet paper at a a 'toilet paper drive in' in a parking spot in Dornburg, some 60 km west of Frankfurt, Germany.](https://gdb.voanews.com/d83ca8bc-d7e3-4e0f-9b04-d3408effdfa4_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman piles up toilet paper at a a 'toilet paper drive in' in a parking spot in Dornburg, some 60 km west of Frankfurt, Germany.
![Firefighters extinguish a forest fire that started near Xichang in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan province, China, March 31, 2020.](https://gdb.voanews.com/139a1692-358c-4947-acfc-e5ee94274171_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Firefighters extinguish a forest fire that started near Xichang in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan province, China, March 31, 2020.