Balcony protests and e-rallies as epidemic curtails May Day demonstrations
Athens, Greece
Greek workers and students wearing masks and gloves lined up outside parliament to commemorate May Day, defying a government ban on movement imposed to fight the coronavirus.
Using colourful plastic markers placed on the ground to help them observe distance rules, hundreds of protesters joined a rally organised by the Communist-affiliated group PAME.
The protesters waved flags, chanted slogans and held banners reading "No sacrifice for the bosses".
Istanbul, Turkey
Activists, wearing face masks for protection against COVID-19, wrestled with Turkish police during a May Day rally marking the international day of the worker in Istanbul.
Police in city detained several demonstrators who tried to march toward Istanbul's symbolic Taksim Square to mark May Day in defiance of the lockdown imposed by the government due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Vilnius, Lithuania
Members of the Lithuanian Trade Union "Solidarity", wearing protective masks and respecting the social distancing rules against the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, protest in front of the Lithuanian Presidential Palace during the Labour Day demonstration in Vilnius on May Day.
Moscow, Russia
A Russian Communist party supporter carries a red flag as he walks along Red Square in the country's capital, Moscow.
The Labour Day celebrations were cancelled due to pandemic threat of Covid-19.
Seoul, South Korea
South Korean workers used ropes to keep their distance from one another at a rally in Seoul.
Marseille, France
A woman wearing protective mask carry a banner reading "money for the public hospital and for all the public services" during the yellow vest protest to mark international May Day celebrations in front of the Timone hospital in Marseille, southern France.
There is a the strict lockdown across France aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus on the 46th day of lockdown.
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