How Covid upended life as we knew it in a matter of weeks
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On Jan. 1, 2020, as the world welcomed a new decade, Chinese authorities in Wuhan shut down a seafood market in the central city of 11 million, suspecting that an outbreak of a new "viral pneumonia" affecting 27 people might be linked to the site.
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In South Africa in May, at the Itireleng informal settlement near Laudium suburb in Pretoria, people waited in a queue that stretched as far as the eye could see to receive food aid.
As 2020 heads to its close, vaccines are on the horizon. There is hope that some aspects of life as we knew it will return.
Dogs wear masks at a main shopping area in downtown Shanghai, China.
Lori Spencer visits her mom Judie Shape, 81, who Spencer says has tested positive for COVID-19, at Life Care Center of Kirkland in Kirkland, Washington, United States.
An empty street in Manhattan borough in New York City, United States.
A customer pushes her trolley next to empty shelves at a Sainsbury's store in Harpenden, Britain.
Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro adjusts his protective face mask during a news conference to announce measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Brasilia, Brazil.
The Serbian military sets up beds inside Hall 1 of the Belgrade Fair to accommodate people who suffer mild symptoms of COVID-19 in Belgrade, Serbia.
U.S. President Donald Trump departs after addressing the coronavirus task force daily briefing as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, stands by at the White House in Washington, United States.
NYSE-AMEX Options floor trader Alex from TradeMas Inc. works in an off-site trading office built when the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) closed, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, United States.
Migrant workers crowd up outside a bus station as they wait to board buses to return to their villages during a 21-day nationwide lockdown in Ghaziabad, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India.
A man wearing a face mask gets out through barriers, which have been built up to block buildings from a street in Wuhan, Hubei province, China.
Manager Alisha Narvaez, 36, and Nicole Warring, 33, a Resident Funeral Director of the funeral home International Funeral & Cremation Services, carry a deceased person into the basement area where bodies are stored and prepared for funeral services, in Harlem, New York City, United States.
Health workers wearing protective gear bring a dead body past a refrigerated container outside of Teodoro Maldonado Carbo Hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
An arial view shows bodies being buried on New York's Hart Island in New York City, United States.
Felix and his mother Naomi Hassebroek look at Naomi's sister's newborn baby through a glass door while dropping off a bag of supplies for Easter in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, United States.
Yang Guangyu, 54, a local barber working in his shop at a blocked residential area, wears his handmade mask assembled from a water bottle, mask and a plastic pipe, as he works after the lockdown was lifted in Wuhan, Hubei province, China.
Nurse Dilara Fahrioglu's goggles are covered with vapour after taking care of a COVID-19 patient at an intensive care unit of the Medicana International Hospital in Istanbul, Turkey.
Health care workers stand in the street in counter-protest to hundreds of people who gathered at the State Capitol to demand the stay-at-home order be lifted in Denver, Colorado, United States.
COVID-19 patient Maria Josefa Arias, 76, is lifted into an Ambuiberica ambulance by her son Ander Maria Dominguez Arias and emergency technician Marisa Arguello de Paula in Llodio, Spain.
Triathlete Lloyd Bebbington trains in a pool in his garden at home in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Britain.
Ayse Mehmet, whose daughter Sonya Kaygan died from from complications related to COVID-19, has tears wiped by her three-year-old granddaughter, also named Ayse, at her home in Enfield, Britain.
A health worker reacts before the burial of a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officer who died due to complications related to COVID-19, at a graveyard in New Delhi, India.
Johanna and Philipp Sofsky listen to registrar Astrid Born during their wedding ceremony at the temporary registry office in Hanau, Germany.
Refrigerated tractor trailers used to store bodies of deceased people are seen at a temporary morgue in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, U.S.
Neonatal Nurse Kirsty Hartley carries premature baby Theo Anderson to his mother Kirsty Anderson in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Lancashire Women and Newborn Centre at Burnley General Hospital in East Lancashire, Burnley, Britain.
Maria Ortiz reacts while kneeling beside the body of her partner Jose Holguin who died of complications related to COVID-19, during a viewing service for Mr. Holguin at International Funeral & Cremation Services in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States.
The body of Valnir Mendes da Silva, 62, lays on a sidewalk of Arara community, where he died after residents requested help from the emergency service as he was suffering from breathing problems in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Muslims wait to attend Eid-al-Fitr prayer marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Dakar, Senegal.
The body of a man who died due to complications related to COVID-19, is seen at a crematorium in New Delhi, India.
A cemetery worker digs new graves at the Xico cemetery on the outskirts of Mexico City in Mexico.
Sefer Yucel, a special attendant known as a 'tellak', who massages and bathes customers taking a Turkish bath, wears a protective mask and a face shield as he bathes his customer Mustafa Keskin in the men's section of the historical Cemberlitas Hammam in Istanbul, Turkey.
People participate in an outdoor yoga class by LMNTS Outdoor Studio, in a dome to facilitate social distancing and proper protocols to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
A medical worker collects a sample from a woman at a school turned into a centre to conduct tests for COVID-19 in New Delhi, India.
Nursery plants sit in people's seats during a rehearsal as Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu opera reopens its doors with a concert for plants to raise awareness about the importance of an audience after the lockdown in Barcelona, Spain.
Mayu adjusts Koiku's kimono, both of whom are geisha, as Koiku wears a protective face mask to pose for a photograph before working at a party at Asada, a luxury Japanese restaurant in Tokyo, Japan.
Chief medical officer at United Memorial Medical Center (UMMC) Dr. Joseph Varon, 58, and a team of healthcare workers perform CPR on a COVID-19 patient at UMMC in Houston, Texas, United States.
A patient suffering from diabetes lies on a hospital bed as his family look after him on the emergency ward of Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College and Hospital in Bhagalpur, Bihar, India.
A worker in a protective suit sprays to disinfect the Amazonas Theatre ahead of its reopening in Manaus, Brazil.
People enjoy a music party inside a swimming pool at the Wuhan Maya Beach Park, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China.
A boy wears a face shield while watching a simulation of an online learning class from a smartphone in his home in Manila, Philippines.
Gang members are seen inside a cell at Quezaltepeque jail during a media tour in Quezaltepeque, El Salvador.
Supporters of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr maintain social distancing as they attend Friday prayers after COVID-19 restrictions were eased, in Kufa mosque, near Najaf, Iraq.
Students wear protective face masks as they have their temperature checked before entering a class, after the government allowed the reopening of schools from grade six to eight in Peshawar, Pakistan.
A drone image shows decommissioned cruise ships being dismantled at Aliaga ship-breaking yard in the Aegean port city of Izmir, western Turkey.
Medical workers in protective suits rest after hours of treating COVID-19 patients in an intensive care unit at Hospital Juarez de Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico.
Vehicles wait at a drive-thru COVID-19 testing site in the parking lot of Miller Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
Men dressed in protective suits stand around the coffin of Kenyan doctor Daniel Alushula who died due to complications related to COVID-19, during his funeral in the village of Khumusalaba, in Kakamega county, Kenya.
Treatment blocks stand at a temporary hospital in the Krylatskoye Ice Palace, where COVID-19 patients are being treated, in Moscow, Russia.
Florence Bolton, 85, a COVID-19 patient, lies on her intensive care bed as family members attempt to FaceTime her at Roseland Community Hospital on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
