PHOTO GALLERY: The 5-year anniversary of COVID-19 pandemic
PHOTO GALLERY: The 5-year anniversary of COVID-19 pandemic
With the Washington Monument in the background, white flags are displays as part of artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg’s temporary art installation, “In America: Remember,” in remembrance of Americans who have died of COVID-19, on the National Mall in Washington, on Sept. 17, 2021. The installation consists of more than 630,000 flags. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
Agustina Cañamero, 81, and Pascual Pérez, 84, hug and kiss through a plastic film screen to avoid contracting the coronavirus at a nursing home in Barcelona, Spain, on June 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
A patient holds an Our Lady of Guadalupe card in his bed while talking to chaplain Nancy Many at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles on Jan. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Russian soldiers wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus, march toward Red Square to attend a dress rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, June 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
An elderly woman, wearing a protective face mask is sprayed with a disinfectant bleach solution by a soldier as a preventive measure against the spread of the new coronavirus, at the entrance of a food market in Caracas, Venezuela, on March 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Emma Salvador, 84, supplements her oxygen as her son Jose Gonzalez watches over her in a makeshift tent set up at the 2 de Mayo Hospital to treat people who are infected with the new coronavirus, in Lima, Peru, on April 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
In this photo taken on Monday, May 4, 2020, a patient with coronavirus breathes with an oxygen mask at an intensive care unit at a regional hospital in Chernivtsi, Ukraine on May 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A man wearing face mask rides his bicycle next to boats with face masks hanging on them during a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, at the port in the mixed Arab Jewish city of Jaffa, near Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
A medical worker wearing protective gear enters the treatment hall of a temporary hospital for coronavirus patients in the Krylatskoye Ice Palace in Moscow, Russia, on Nov. 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
Sonya Rodriguez wipes her tears after seeing her father via video chat arranged by chaplain Kevin Deegan in a COVID-19 unit at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
With the Washington Monument in the background, white flags are displays as part of artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg’s temporary art installation, “In America: Remember,” in remembrance of Americans who have died of COVID-19, on the National Mall in Washington, on Sept. 17, 2021. The installation consists of more than 630,000 flags. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
With the Washington Monument in the background, white flags are displays as part of artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg’s temporary art installation, “In America: Remember,” in remembrance of Americans who have died of COVID-19, on the National Mall in Washington, on Sept. 17, 2021. The installation consists of more than 630,000 flags. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
Socially distanced kindergarten students wait for their parents to pick them up on the first day of in-person learning at Maurice Sendak Elementary School in Los Angeles, on April 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Cleric women wearing protective clothing and “chador,” a head-to-toe garment, arrive a cemetery to prepare the body of a victim who died from the new coronavirus for a funeral, in the city of Ghaemshahr, in north of Iran, on April 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Dozens of empty oxygen cylinders lay across a dirt road, as people wait for a shop to open in order to refill their tanks in the Villa El Salvador neighborhood, as the lack of medical oxygen to treat COVID-19 patients continues in Lima, Peru, on April 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Rectangles designed to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus by encouraging social distancing line a city-sanctioned homeless encampment at San Francisco’s Civic Center on May 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)
A worker wearing a protective suit sprays disinfectant at a screening checkpoint for arriving athletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics, on Feb. 1, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)