The images of the day, 10/27/2020

1Volunteers bury the body of a deceased by coronavirus in a cemetery in Yangon (Burma).

The coronavirus pandemic has registered more than 493,000 new cases in the world in the last 24 hours, the second highest daily figure in the entire historical series, bringing the total to more than 43.5 million infected people and 1.16 million fatalities, according to the balance published Tuesday by Johns Hopkins University.

YE AUNG THU AFP

2View of the colorful Chualluma neighborhood in La Paz (Bolivia).

The multicolored streets of the Chualluma neighborhood, in a poor area of ​​La Paz, stopped receiving tourists due to the coronavirus, stopping the idea of ​​their neighbors to set up a tourist circuit to obtain greater economic income.

RONALDO SCHEMIDT AFP

3Health personnel with a coronavirus patient in the ICU of the Robert Ballanger hospital in Aulnay-sous-Bois (France).

The total number of people in intensive care in France rises to 2,761, almost half of the country's total capacity of 5,800, forcing some hospitals to start transferring patients to less crowded facilities.

GONZALO FUENTES REUTERS

4A group of firefighters work on a forest fire in Yorba Linda, California (USA).

The flames have burned 1.6 million hectares so far this year in California, leading to the declaration of "a state of disaster" in a region experiencing the warmest year in more than a century.

ROBYN BECK AFP

5British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, UK.

The British Government applies new restrictions since this Saturday in more areas of northern England where the alert for covid-19 has been raised in order to contain the rebound in cases.

POOL REUTERS

6President Donald Trump during the swearing-in of Justice Amy Coney Barrett as Supreme Court Justice, at the White House in Washington.

Trump has stated that the entry of Judge Barrett to the Supreme Court is a "memorable day" for the history of the country, its democracy, its judicial independence and its Constitution.

Alex Brandon AP

7A health worker walks past the mural of a clinic in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The country has quarantined more than 10,000 police officers, ten percent of the workforce, to stop the spread of covid-19 after the contagion of at least 200 agents.

LIM HUEY TENG REUTERS

8A farmer rakes rice to dry in the sun in Chuncheon, South Korea.

The South Korean government has reported the first case of "highly pathogenic" bird flu in the country in 32 months;

a virulent H5N8 strain discovered from a fecal sample of wild birds in Cheonan, 92 kilometers south of Seoul, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs reported.

YONHAP EFE

9Demonstrators during anti-government protests in Baghdad (Iraq).

Dozens of young people confronted the police in Baghdad, and in numerous cities in Iraq, on the anniversary of the 2019 protests. THAIER AL-SUDANI REUTERS