covid
Glimpses

A different world

The coronavirus pandemic has completely changed the planet.

From North to South America, passing through Africa to the most developed countries in Asia and Europe. Covid-19 has transformed habits the world over and imposed some common rules. Faces masks, the topic on everybody’s lips, has wiped the smiles off many faces.

Covid-19 has become the most global virus in history. Not only due to the fact that it is known about on a worldwide scale, its virality and contagion capacity, but also because there is no remote corner of the planet that has not suffered from its consequences. Face masks, distancing, sanitizer gels, PCR tests, restricted timetables… Nobody has escaped from adapting to the so-called ‘new normality.’ 

In the Brazilian region of Igarape-Miri the first digital thermometers arrived to control the temperature of the population.
An unusual football image. Most countries do not allow the public to enter the stadiums, the players cannot greet each other and in each game even the goal posts are disinfected.
Indonesia imposes a curious punishment on those who don’t wear face masks: digging graves for those who died from the pandemic.
In Italy, the site of the first important outbreak of the virus in Europe, serious disputes against the restrictions have occurred in the streets.
In India, the increase in the number of cases caused schools to be closed. Some teachers travel by motorbike between villages to give a lesson a day.
In spite of the closing of informal markets, Zimbabwe does not allow people to move between nearby villages to look for food.
Hikikomori are the so-called modern Japanese hermits. They almost never leave their homes and never interact with anybody. The country estimates that this syndrome has shot up amongst the adult population due to the virus.