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October 28, 2020
Rights, Transparency Central for Covid-19 Vaccines
Municipal health workers conduct rapid coronavirus testing in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in September 2020. © 2020 Bruna Prado/Getty Images
A municipal worker in Karachi, Pakistan checks the body temperature of a man waiting at a food distribution point during a government-imposed Covid-19 lockdown in April 2020. © 2020 Rizwan Tabassum/AFP via Getty Images
A health worker treats a patient believed to have Covid-19 in a restaurant that was converted into a clinic in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan in July 2020. © 2020 Vladimir Voronin/AP Photo
A doctor examines an older resident at a nursing facility in Madrid, Spain, during the country’s Covid-19 lockdown, in April 2020. © 2020 Oscar del Pozo/AFP via Getty Images
A nurse in Caracas, Venezuela prepares bottles with soap, chlorine, and water at the entrance of the health facility where she cares for patients with suspected Covid-19. Like most people in Caracas, she often lacks running water and has to fill buckets in a public tap to do daily disinfection after work to protect her son and grandson, who live with her. © 2020 Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Getty Images
People in Brooklyn, New York wait in line to receive free food from a food pantry in May 2020, as unemployment claims rose during the Covid-19 outbreak. © 2020 Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images
Patients waiting outside a hospital for coronavirus testing in Dhaka, Bangladesh on May 16, 2020. © 2020 Syed Mahamudur Rahman/NurPhoto via AP
A medic checks the temperature of a man inside a health isolation center established on the Syrian-Turkish border as a preventive measure against the spread of Covid-19. © 2020 Anas Alkharboutli/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images
A woman from Barcelona’s street vendors union sews protective face masks to donate to health care workers whose supplies were running low, March 2020. © 2020 Sindicato Popular de Vendedores Ambulantes/Top Manta
Women wait in line for food in Nairobi, Kenya during Covid-19-related movement restrictions. © 2020 Brian Inganga/AP Photo
Police officers arrest doctors and paramedics protesting against the lack of protective equipment during the government-imposed Covid-19 lockdown, in Quetta, Pakistan in April 2020. ©
Students in Bangkok, Thailand wear face masks, sit at desks with plastic screens, and practice social distancing as schools reopen in August 2020 after Covid-19-related closures. © 2020 Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images
A man in Soweto, South Africa receives an injection as he participates in clinical trial for a Covid-19 vaccine in June 2020. © 2020 Siphiwe Sibeko/Pool/ AFP via Getty Images
An older woman looks on from her window in Barcelona, Spain in April 2020 during the country’s strict Covid-19 lockdown. © 2020 David Ramos/Getty Images
An aerial photograph of a burial in April 2020 in Manaus, in the Amazon forest in Brazil, where people who died of suspected or confirmed Covid-19 are buried. © 2020 Michael Dantas/AFP via Getty Images
Twenty thousand empty chairs placed on the National Mall in Washington, DC in October 2020 to represent the more 200,000 people who died of Covid-19 in the United States. © 2020 Erin Scott/Reuters