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Images from an empty Hollywood Boulevard after Southern California went into lockdown Monday putting 20 million people under stay-at-home orders as the United States battles record Covid deaths. IMAGES
Few pedestrians are seen on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles as California enacts measures to gradually ease its lockdown, allowing some retail and manufacturing businesses to reopen – with modifications in the way they operate in order to stem the spread of the coronavirus. IMAGES
Workers in PPE test residents, including elderly and children, in a locked-down Shanghai residential district. Shanghai, a city of 25 million and China's economic engine room, has become the heart of the country's biggest outbreak since the peak of the first virus wave in Wuhan over two years ago, rattling the country's adherence to a strict zero-Covid policy. Residents locked down since early April have complained of food shortages and over-zealous officials forcing them into state quarantine, as authorities rush to construct tens of thousands of beds to house Covid-19 patients with daily infections topping 20,000. IMAGES
Residents in Shanghai take Covid tests while under lockdown. China reported over 20,000 Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, the highest daily tally given since the start of the pandemic, with Shanghai the heart of the virus surge despite being in lockdown. IMAGES
People visit a Melbourne café after enduring one of the world's most prolonged series of lockdowns. The city's five million people have spent more than 260 days under lockdown since the beginning of the pandemic. But now that 70 percent of eligible people in Melbourne and surrounding Victoria state are fully vaccinated, restrictions that began on August 5 have been lifted. IMAGES
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.