Each month The Associated Press honors photographers for outstanding coverage while on assignment.

The winners for the March 2020 AP Photo Contest are Luca Bruno for News Photography Single Image, for his photo of Italian soldiers on patrol in Milan, Italy during the coronavirus pandemic. Antonio Calanni, Domenico Stinellis and Luca Bruno for News Photography Story, for their series of portraits of front-line health workers in Italy.

Dmitri Lovetsky for Feature Photography Single Image, for his photo of a man climbing on a pole in snowfall to get a prize during celebrations of Pancake Week in Veliky Novgorod, Russia.

Emilio Morenatti for Feature Photography Story, for his series of the homeless in Barcelona, Spain during the coronavirus pandemic.

Darron Cummings for Sports Photography Single Image, for his photo of Milwaukee Brewers' Jace Peterson trying to catch a ball hit by Cincinnati Reds' Phillip Ervin during the first inning of a spring training baseball game in Phoenix, Arizona.

Congratulations to all the photographers for their outstanding work. This month’s winning images, judged by Alexander Zemlianichenko, are featured below.

News Photography Single Image | Luca Bruno

Virus Patrol

Italian soldiers patrol as the Duomo gothic cathedral is visible in background, in Milan, Friday, March 20, 2020. Mayors of many towns in Italy are asking for ever more stringent measures on citizens' movements to help contain the surging infections of the coronavirus. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

News Photography Story | Antonio Calanni, Domenico Stinellis and Luca Bruno

Italy's Heroes

A combo of portraits of Italian doctors and nurses taken during a break or at the end of their shifts in Rome, Bergamo and Brescia, Italy, Friday, March 27, 2020. The intensive care doctors and nurses on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic in Italy are often almost unrecognizable behind their masks, scrubs, gloves and hairnets their only barrier to contagion. Associated Press photographers fanned out on Friday to photograph them during rare breaks from hospital intensive care units in the Lombardy region cities of Bergamo and Brescia, and in Rome. In each case, doctors, nurses and paramedics posed in front of forest green surgical drapes, the bland backdrop of their sterile wards. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, Antonio Calanni, Luca Bruno)

Ana Travezano, 39, a nurse at the Humanitas Gavazzeni Hospital in Bergamo, Italy poses for a portrait at the end of her shift Friday, March 27, 2020. The intensive care doctors and nurses on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic in Italy are almost unrecognizable behind their masks, scrubs, gloves and hairnets. But that flimsy battle armor donned at the start of each shift is their only barrier to contagion. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Claudia Accardo, ICU transport service at Rome's COVID 3 Spoke Casalpalocco Clinic, poses for a portrait, Friday, March 27, 2020, during a break in her daily shift. The intensive care doctors and nurses on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic in Italy are almost unrecognizable behind their masks, scrubs, gloves and hairnets. But that flimsy battle armor donned at the start of each shift is their only barrier to contagion. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Lucia Perolari, 24, a nurse at the Humanitas Gavazzeni Hospital in Bergamo, Italy poses for a portrait at the end of her shift Friday, March 27, 2020. The intensive care doctors and nurses on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic in Italy are almost unrecognizable behind their masks, scrubs, gloves and hairnets. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Doctor Luca Tarantino, 37, an electrophysiologist at the Humanitas Gavazzeni Hospital in Bergamo, Italy poses for a portrait at the end of his shift Friday, March 27, 2020. The intensive care doctors and nurses on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic in Italy are almost unrecognizable behind their masks, scrubs, gloves and hairnets. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Laura Orsini, 39, an administrative worker at Rome's COVID 3 Spoke Casalpalocco Clinic poses for a portrait, Friday, March 27, 2020, during a break in her daily shift. The intensive care doctors and nurses on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic in Italy are almost unrecognizable behind their masks, scrubs, gloves and hairnets. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis

Adriano Rodriguez, 48, an ICU nurse at Rome's COVID 3 Spoke Casalpalocco Clinic poses for a portrait, Friday, March 27, 2020, during a break in his daily shift. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Director of the Intensive Care unit Gabriele Tomasoni, 65, poses for a portrait at the Brescia Spedali Civic Hospital, in Brescia, Italy Friday, March 27, 2020. The intensive care doctors and nurses on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic in Italy are almost unrecognizable behind their masks, scrubs, gloves and hairnets. "These are patients who are starving for air," said Tomasoni. "We know these are elderly patients," Tomasoni said at the end of his shift on Friday evening. "They need closeness. Tenderness." (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Doctor Marta Catoni, 33, an immunologist at Rome's COVID 3 Spoke Casalpalocco Clinic, poses for a portrait, Friday, March 27, 2020, during a break in her daily shift. The doctors and nurses on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic in Italy are almost unrecognizable behind their masks, scrubs, gloves and hairnets - the flimsy battle armor donned at the start of each shift as the only barrier to contagion. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Martina Papponetti, 25, a nurse at the Humanitas Gavazzeni Hospital in Bergamo, Italy poses for a portrait at the end of her shift Friday, March 27, 2020. Their eyes are tired. Their cheekbones rubbed raw from protective masks. They don't smile. The doctors and nurses on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic in Italy are almost unrecognizable behind their masks, scrubs, gloves and hairnets - the flimsy battle armor donned at the start of each shift as the only barrier to contagion. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

In this image taken on Friday, March 27, 2020, intensive care unit nurse Michela Pagati, 48, poses for a photo at the Brescia Spedali Civili Hospital, in Brescia, Italy. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Francesco Tarantini, 54, a nurse at the emergency structures that were set up to ease procedures for the arrival of Covid-19 patients, poses for a portrait at the Brescia Spedali Civili Hospital, in Brescia, Italy Friday, March 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Feature Photography Single Image | Dmitri Lovetsky

Snowfall Climb

A man climbs on a pole in snowfall to get a prize during celebrations of Maslenitsa, or Pancake Week in Veliky Novgorod, some 550 kilometers (340 miles) northeast of Moscow, Russia, Sunday, March 1, 2020, with a statue of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin on the right. Maslenitsa is traditional Russian holiday marking the end of winter that dates back to the pagan times. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Feature Photography Story | Emilio Morenatti

Barcelona Homeless

In this Friday, March 20, 2020, Boris, 42, from Bulgarian, sleeps under a blanket in the street of Barcelona, Spain. With shelters and social cafeterias closed or operating partly due to virus outbreak, many of the 1,000 rough-sleepers in the city are left with little food, poor hygiene and nowhere to go making them extremely vulnerable not just to the virus but to other threats as well. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

In this Saturday, March 21, 2020, Javier Redondo, 40, covers his head with his hands as he waits for alms on an empty street of Barcelona, Spain. While authorities are telling people to stay at home amid the COVID-19 outbreak, others as Javier are having to stay on the street -- because they have no choice. “I am not afraid of the virus because my physical condition is very good. If I caught the virus, my body would expel it as if it were a gastroenteritis”, Javier said. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

In this Saturday, March 21, 2020, a blanket is used as a shelter at the corner of a square in downtown Barcelona, Spain. With Spain one of the world???s worst-hit countries by the new coronavirus, and the government ordering a national lockdown, the country???s streets are largely deserted. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

In this Saturday, March 21, 2020, Kevin, 32, from France, plays guitar in front of a supermarket in Barcelona, Spain. Kevin, who sleep in the streets of Barcelona for the last 4 years said ???I used to earn enough money to eat every day, now I don't get even one meal a day. Now I play the guitar just for me as nobody is in the street???. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

In this Sunday, March 22, 2020, a man of sub-Saharan Africa covers himself with clothes and blankets as he sits in a bench of an empty parking outside the train station in Barcelona, Spain. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

In this Sunday, March 22, 2020, a man covered with a blanket sleeps in an empty the street in Barcelona, Spain. In Barcelona sleeping figures with boxes and blankets punctuate the mostly empty city. They are Barcelona???s homeless, and there are about 1,000 of them. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

In this Friday, March 20, 2020, Gana Gutierrez sits in an empty street in Barcelona, Spain. ???It is as if there has been a nuclear explosion and they are all sheltering in the bunker. Only us, the homeless, are left out " explains 36-year-old Gana, who has lived on the street for more than 8 years and comments that the slogan. ???quedateencasa" (Stayathome) is only for those who have a roof over their heads but not for them. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

In this Thursday, March 19, 2020, a man of sub-Saharan Africa sleeps in an empty street in downtown Barcelona, Spain. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

In this Friday, March 20, 2020, Riccardo, 32, sits in empty arcades in downtown Barcelona, Spain. "I thought I had seen everything during all these years sleeping in the street, but no. This silence on the street all day scares me... more than the virus itself ..." says Riccardo, 32, who has been sleeping on the street for more than 10 years. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

In this Sunday, March 22, 2020, a man covered with a blanket sleeps in an empty the street in Barcelona, Spain. In Barcelona sleeping figures with boxes and blankets punctuate the mostly empty city. They are Barcelona???s homeless, and there are about 1,000 of them. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

In this Saturday, March 21, 2020, Jose sleeps in the street in downtown Barcelona, Spain. Jose, 27, has been sleeping in the street for 5 years and is convinced that the Spanish army will put all the beggars of the city in tents ???I refuse! I am not going to be infested with the virus anywhere, I am safe here in the arcade???. Authorities are scrambling to get as many homeless people off the streets without cramming them into a shelter, where the spread of COVID-19 could be even greater. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

In this Saturday, March 21, 2020, a woman drags a cart with her belongings as she walks along an empty street in downtown Barcelona, Spain. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Sports Photography Single Image | Darron Cummings

Spring Training Try

Milwaukee Brewers' Jace Peterson tries to catch a ball hit by Cincinnati Reds' Phillip Ervin during the first inning of a spring training baseball game, Sunday, March 1, 2020, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

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