Red maples and a medical train: Wednesday’s best photos

The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world

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Main image: Wuzhou garden in Chongqing, China

  • Paris, France

    A member of the medical team watches from the platform as a patient infected with the Covid-19 virus is put on a train at Gare d’Austerlitz, ready to be transferred to a hospital in Brittany
    Paris, France: a member of the medical team watches from the platform as a patient infected with the Covid-19 virus is put on a train at Gare d’Austerlitz, ready to be transferred to a hospital in Brittany

  • Chatsworth, South Africa

    Shoppers queue at a grocery store in a township in South Durban during the lockdown
    Chatsworth, South Africa: shoppers queue at a grocery store in a township in South Durban during the lockdown

  • Rochester, UK

    Polytunnels cover seasonal fruit such as raspberries and strawberries at a farm in Kent. Concerns over the short supply of seasonal workers are growing with an estimated 90,000 positions, usually filled by workers from eastern Europe, remaining empty
    Rochester, UK: polytunnels cover seasonal fruit such as raspberries and strawberries at a farm in Kent

  • Hyderabad, India

    People sit inside marked areas on a street as they wait to receive free rice from a government store
    Hyderabad, India: people sit inside marked areas on a street as they wait to receive free rice distributed at a government store

  • Bangkok, Thailand

    Buddhist monks wear masks as they head to a market to collect alms
    Bangkok, Thailand: Buddhist monks wear masks as they head to a market to collect alms

  • Prague, Czech Republic

    A municipal worker sprays disinfectant along the Vltava river to curb the spread of coronavirus
    Prague, Czech Republic. A municipality worker sprays a disinfectant along the Vltava river to curb the spread of the coronavirus

  • Beirut, Lebanon

    Volunteers from Hezbollah’s Islamic health unit gather to sanitise streets in Beirut’s southern suburbs
    Beirut, Lebanon: volunteers from Hezbollah’s Islamic health unit gather to sanitise streets

  • Marseille, France

    A resident of a block of flats is passed food by his neighbours using a rope made of blankets
    Marseille, France: a resident of a block of flats is passed food by his neighbours using a rope made of blankets

  • Barcelona, Spain

    Two attendees watch a cemetery worker place a coffin in a niche in Santa Margarida de Montbui
    Barcelona, Spain: two attendees watch a cemetery worker place a coffin in a niche in Santa Margarida de Montbui

  • Bristol, UK

    A man peers out of his window during the second week of lockdown
    Bristol, UK: a man peers out of his window during the second week of lockdown

  • Bazhong, China

    Students walk on to the campus of a high school in Sichuan province, as more than 450,000 final year students returned to school on Wednesday
    Bazhong, China: students walk on to the campus of a high school in Sichuan province

  • Chongqing, China

    A woman walks through the red maples at Wuzhou gardens
    Chongqing, China: a woman walks through the red maples at Wuzhou gardens

  • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Workers take time to pray before starting a disinfection operation
    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Workers take time to pray before starting a disinfection operation

  • Beijing, China

    Paramilitary police officers cross a street
    Beijing, China. Paramilitary police officers cross a street
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