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| - Features Editors: Paris: Kate Millar +33 1 4041 4636 Hong Kong: Liz Thomas +852 2829 6211 Twitter: @AFPfeature Ahead of May Day on Friday, set to be marked on balconies and social media this year with half the globe in lockdown, AFP has photographed workers on the "second line" of the battle against the new coronavirus. These workers doing essential jobs have made life under lockdown possible, by ensuring we can still eat, communicate, get around when needed, cleanse and conduct burials. From April 18 to 25, around 50 men and women agreed to pose in their workplace for pictures that convey their feelings and motives, as they defy the virus and continue to work. + Survival or duty: the unsung 'second-line' virus workers Health-virus-workers,PHOTOESSAY PARIS Shopkeepers, dustmen, delivery people, cleaners, postmen -- they're some of the jobs making life under lockdown possible. Often low paid, sometimes invisible or even scorned, these roles have today become essential in a world gripped by the coronavirus pandemic. AFP photographers have taken portraits of workers doing these jobs, whether to stave off hunger, or out of a sense of duty, feeling sacrificed or valued. 850 words with pictures by AFP photographers around the world afp
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