Photo taken on April 6, 2020 shows a scene of online tea auction at the Colombo office of Asia Siyaka Commodities, a leading tea broker in Sri lanka, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The bang of the auctioneer's gavel has been replaced with the click of a button, as Sri Lanka's 126-year old Colombo Tea Auction has moved online amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Over 16.5 million kg of tea were sold at Sri Lanka's first three e-auctions between April 4-19, allowing the country's tea export industry worth 1.5 billion U.S. dollars to continue during a nationwide curfew imposed to contain the pandemic. (Xinhua/Tang Lu)
