Five years since the outbreak of Covid-19 - in pictures
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
