El abrazo tras el confinamiento: imagen del año World Press Photo 2020

85-year-old Rosa Luzia Lunardi is embraced by nurse Adriana Silva da Costa Souza. The first hug she receives in five months.

Indonesia, 18 April 2020 The body of a suspected coronavirus victim, wrapped in yellow infectious waste plastic bags and wrappers, lies on the patient's deathbed awaiting a body bag in a hospital in Indonesia. The wrapping of the patient, which takes two nurses a full hour to complete through three layers of plastic and nine times of disinfection, is intended to suppress the spread of coronavirus. As mandated by the Indonesian Ministry of Health, the wrapping of the body is a standard procedure for every suspected, comorbid, and positive confirmed COVID-19 death. This process continues until today. As is the case with most victims, family members were not allowed to say goodbye. After the image was published by National Geographic, the image sparked denial and uproar across social media. Many who saw the image declared it to be a set up intended to spread fear. By the end of the year, 563 medical workers in Indonesia have perished due to the pandemic, with the country’s coronavirus toll reaching over 800,000 cases and 20,000 deaths. (Off the record: due to privacy reasons, I am legally bound not to identify the patient, the identity of the hospital, or indicate the hospital’s local geographic location e.g. city, town, etc. The most detail I can include about the hospital would be the country location.)

California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) playing wiht KN95 mask in Monterey, CA.

April 23th, 2020. Pantin, Santilly funeral directors, based in 93. There are approximately 4 times more deaths than normal due to the coronavirus. They have to adapt. Baptiste, a business manager, has rented 3 refrigerated trucks which allow him to store. He wanted to avoid storing them at Rungis. Here is one of them. 14 coffins are undertaken.

Herny Lenayasa, a Samburu man and chief of the settlement of Archers Post tries to scare away a massive swarm of locust ravaging an area next to Archers Post, Samburu County, Kenya on April 24, 2020. A locust plague fueled by unpredictable weather patterns up to 20 times larger than a wave two months earlier is threatening to devastate parts of East Africa. Locust has made already a devastating appearance in Kenya, two months after voracious swarms -some billions strong- ravaged big areas of land and just as the coronavirus outbreak has begun to disrupt livelihoods. In spite of coronavirus-related travel restrictions, international experts are in place to support efforts to eradicate the pest with measures including ground and aerial spraying. The Covid-19 pandemic has competed for funding, hampered movement and delayed the import of some inputs, including insecticides and pesticides. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has called the locust outbreak, caused in part by climate change, “an unprecedented threat” to food security and livelihoods. Its officials have called this new wave some 20 times the size of the first. Photo: Luis Tato for The Washington Post

France-Calais 11/30/2020 Palliative care center at the Calais hospital. Manon, 24, suffering from metastatic cancer embraces her 7-year-old son Ethan in the presence of Peyo who accepts to be touched and caressed by her alone. "With Peyo, we try to recreate life at the end of life, in order to fight, and create an energy to accompany families and caregivers," Hassen says.

5 May 2020; Masters athlete Pat Naughton, age 87, trains at his home in Nenagh, Tipperary, during the on-going Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Photo by Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile