People walk by a poster by Italian urban artist Salvatore Benintende aka "TVBOY" depecting Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa wearing a protective facemask and holding a mobile phone reading "Mobile World Virus" in a street of Barcelona recently. -- Pix: AFP

An eternal flame burns in front of a World War II monument depicting Soviet soldiers at a WWII military historical museum in the village of Lenino, outside Moscow. -- Image by AFP

Children playing in front of the school in Toe Lawt in Lahe township in Myanmar's Sagaing region. -- Image by AFP

Medical staff members talking at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in China's central Hubei province. -- Image by AFP

Reflections of people are seen on a glass from a rooftop viewing area showing Tokyo's east side. -- Image by AFP

A polar bear cub licks its mother Nora during its first public appearance at the Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna, Austria, on Feb 13, 2020. The still unnamed bear cub was born on Nov 09, 2019. -- Image by APA/ AFP

A boy plays on an art installation featuring snowballs at the Zaryadye park, with the Kremlin's cathedrals, towers and Ivan the Great bell tower seen in the background, in downtown Moscow. -- Image by AFP

A man crosses over the US/Mexico border fence from Mexicali to Calexico, at Baja California state, Mexico, on Feb 11. -- Image by AFP

Syrian government forces deploy near the Damascus-Aleppo highway, in the southern part of the Aleppo province. The number of people displaced by violence in the region neared 700,000 since December. -- Image by AFP

People wearing protective suits walking from the Diamond Princess cruise ship, with around 3,600 people quarantined onboard due to fears of the new coronavirus, at the Daikoku Pier Cruise Terminal in Yokohama port on Feb 10, 2020. -- Image by AFP