Five years since the outbreak of Covid-19 - in pictures
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This year marks five years since the World Health Organisation declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on January 30, 2020. The National looks at some of the most striking images taken during the Covid-19 pandemic. All photos: Getty Images -
A pedestrian walks along a near-deserted street during a lockdown imposed in 2021 in Mumbai, India -
An elderly woman wears a face shield as she attends Eid Al Adha prayers at a mosque in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 2021 -
An aerial view of Queen Square in Bristol, England, where hearts were sprayed on to the grass in an effort to encourage social distancing in 2020 -
Medical staff in protective gear move a Covid patient from an ambulance into hospital in Seoul, South Korea, in 2020 -
A Civil Protection member in a hangar where 18 coffins of victims of Covid-19 wait to be transported to Florence by the Italian Army in Ponte San Pietro in 2020 -
Military vehicles cross an empty Westminster Bridge in London in March 2020 -
Dental nurses embrace before treating a possible Covid-positive dental patient in Wrexham, Wales, in 2020 -
A health worker passes a vial got be used in a nucleic acid test to detect Covid-19 in Beijing, China, in 2022 -
A giant television beside a motorway urges people to stay home in Manchester in the early days of the outbreak -
Firefighters prepare to disinfect Wuhan Tianhe International Airport in 2020 in Wuhan, China's Hubei province -
A sign reminding the public of new social-distancing rules displayed at Manly Beach in Sydney in 2020 -
A woman lights a candle to commemorate victims of the pandemic at Prague Castle in the Czech Republic in 2021 -
Staff members of the Tokyo metropolitan government hold signs as they call for people to stay home in 2020 -
A man waves from a bus carrying passengers who disembarked the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship, as he leaves Daikoku Pier in Yokohama, Japan, in 2020 -
About 3,000 people gather in Stockholm, Sweden, to demonstrate against so-called vaccine passes in 2022 -
People rush to board buses to return to their native villages in Ghaziabad, on the outskirts New Delhi in 2020 -
Medical volunteers after taking blood and throat mucous samples from visitors to test them for Covid-19 in Berlin in 2020 -
Members of the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority sanitise classrooms at a school in Bangkok, Thailand, in 2021
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