Pictures: Unusual face masks from around the world

Face masks have become a part of people's everyday wardrobe after COVID outbreak

Last updated: August 23, 2020 | 14:54

Compiled by Devadasan K P, Picture Editor with inputs from agencies

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A resident using an improvised face shield made from a plastic water tank to protect him from the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic walks in his neighbourhood in Manila.

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Also in Venezuela, this woman wears a face mask of a crying clown.

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A masked woman poses for a picture during a march demanding justice for the victims of gender violence and femicides in Mexico City.

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A Palestinian mother entertain her children with makeshift masks made of cabbage as she cooks in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.

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Seattle Seahawks coach Andre Curtis, the Seahawks' defensive passing game coordinator, wears a mask on the sideline at the start of an NFL football mock game in Seattle.

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In Italy, engineer Mario Milanesio 3D-printed respiratory valve fittings onto his Decathlon snorkeling mask.

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A contestant wearing a decorative face mask during the preliminary round of the 10th anniversary edition of Miss, Mister and Queen Deaf Thailand in Bangkok.

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Rather than to protect himself, fashion photographer Marcio Rodrigues wanted to make a statement about human waste and garbage. The items he used in his mask hadn't been picked up by trash collectors due to the coronavirus quarantine.

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A Salvadoran government supporter wearing a face mask depicting a partial image of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele takes part in a protest in San Salvador.

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A protester wearing a protective mask attends a protest for U.S. President Donald Trump to resign, during a march to honor people who have died during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

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A man wears a protective face mask on a street, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Bangkok, Thailand.

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A boy wearing a water bottle mask in Jakarta.

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A woman wears a face mask reading "ANTI-WHO" during a demonstration against the restrictions amid the coronavirus pandemic in Dortmund, western Germany,

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A man in Sceaux, France created a face mask from a napkin, although it doesn't appear to be very effective.

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In Kampala, a man hid the lower half of his face behind a circular, alternative mask.

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A man wears a face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus in Hyderabad. India has the third-highest caseload after the United States and Brazil, and the fourth-highest death toll in the world.

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