Surfers and swimmers head to the ocean after Bondi Beach reopened following a five week closure in Sydney on April 28, 2020, amid the COVID-19 novel coronavirus pandemic. Sydney's famed Bondi Beach on April 28 was open to surfers and swimmers almost six weeks after it was closed amid a spike in coronavirus cases. (AFP)

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French free-runner Simon balances on his hands as he performs on a rooftop in Paris on April 26, 2020 during a strict lockdown in France aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 infection caused by the novel coronavirus. (AFP)

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Volunteers prepare Iftar meals to be given to migrant workers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan within the initiative of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, to distribute 10 million meals, on April 28, 2020 in Dubai. (AFP)

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Students eat their lunch on desks with plastic partitions as a preventive measure to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus at Dajia Elementary School in Taipei on April 29, 2020. (AFP)

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Mandy Alison poses with a selection of over 125,000 birthday cards sent to Captain Tom Moore, for his 100th birthday on April 30th, but displayed in the Great Hall of Bedford School, closed-down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in Bedford, north of London, on April 28, 2020. (AFP)

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Suzanne Valette, 88,infected with COVID-19, meets with her son Philippe Melard through a plexiglass lock inside the contenair at the Buissonets retirement home which has been converted into a visiting room for the relatives, in Horion-Hozemont a section of the municipality of Grace-Hollogne in Belgium, on April 29, 2020. (AFP)

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A woman walks in front of the huge lettering reading “Thanks to Doctors” formed by turned on lights in rooms of Kosmos hotel in Moscow on April 29, 2020, during a strict lockdown in Russia to stop the spread of the COVID-19 infection caused by the novel coronavirus. (AFP)

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An aerial view taken on May 2, 2020 shows the roof of iconical Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, during a three-day curfew to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 disease, caused by the novel coronavirus. (AFP)

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A man takes a selfie photo in front of a stencil graffiti depicting US actors John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson in their roles of 'Vincent Vega' and 'Jules Winnfield' in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction wearing face masks, in Madrid on May 3, 2020 amid a national lockdown to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 disease. (AFP)

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