In Pictures

COVID-19 Crisis In Pictures: 12 countries, 12 months, 12 photos

A photo roundup of the coronavirus pandemic that brought the world to a stop in 2020.

January 30: Funeral parlour staff in protective suits disinfect a colleague after they transferred a body at a hospital, following the outbreak of a novel coronavirus in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. [China Daily via Reuters]

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February 25: Officials disinfect the Fatima Masumeh Shrine in Qom, Iran. Restrictions were placed on religious ceremonies to prevent the spread of the virus. [Anadolu Agency via Getty Images]

March 27: Medical staff in protective suits move an 18-year-old COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit of the San Raffaele hospital in Milan, Italy. [Flavio Lo Scalzo/Reuters]

April 13: Health workers during a tribute for their co-worker Esteban, a nurse who died of complications related to COVID-19, outside the Severo Ochoa Hospital in Leganes, Spain. [Susana Vera/Reuters]

May 20: People stand in queue to receive food aid during the coronavirus outbreak at the Itireleng informal settlement, near Laudium suburb in Pretoria, South Africa. [Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters]

June 15: An aerial view of the Parque Taruma cemetery during the coronavirus outbreak in Manaus, Brazil. [Bruno Kelly/Reuters]

July 29: Emergency medical workers take a patient from Hialeah Hospital where coronavirus patients are treated, in Hialeah, Florida, US. [Marco Bello/Reuters]

August 7: A health worker rests before the burial of a woman who died due to COVID-19, at a graveyard in New Delhi, India. [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]

September 23: Students wearing face masks have their temperature checked before entering class in Peshawar, Pakistan. [Fayaz Aziz/Reuters]

October 17: A health worker collects a swab sample from a young girl during free mass testing for COVID-19 in Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya. [Baz Ratner/Reuters]

November 28: General view of a deserted Ortakoy square during a night-time curfew aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 in Istanbul, Turkey. [Ozan Kose/AFP]

December 8: Margaret Keenan, 90, became the first patient in the UK to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, administered by nurse May Parsons at University Hospital in Coventry. [Jacob King/Pool via AP]