Migrant workers across the country started walking towards their homes during the nationwide lockdown after they faced financial problems | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint
New Delhi: This year was all about the pandemic. Issues centering around the novel coronavirus grabbed almost all headlines. From the nationwide lockdown in March, the subsequent migrant crisis, rising number of Covid-19 deaths, an entire country working from home, online classes and an economic crisis, 2020 saw it all.
ThePrint’s photographers Praveen Jain, Manisha Mondal and Suraj Singh Bisht bring you the best of the news pictures that showed the pandemic unfold.
On 22 March, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a janta curfew (a one-day nationwide lockdown). A deserted view of the otherwise crowded Connaught Place in Delhi that Sunday afternoon | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrintIn the last week of May, over 200 people tested positive for Covid-19 among those who had gathered in Delhi’s Markaz Nizamuddin, the headquarters of the Tablighi Jamaat. All patients were taken to an isolation centre | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrintTwo youth run to hitch a ride home near the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border in April when swarms of migrants left cities to go back to their hometowns and villages | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrintIn Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh, children stand in front of the main gate of a village school that was converted into an isolation centre for migrants who had returned | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrintPeople use their shoes to hold their place while queueing up for food at an isolation centre in Uttar Pradesh | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrintA family walks on the highway from Delhi to Agra after failing to board one of the government arranged buses | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrintChildren run towards a meal distribution centre in Uttar Pradesh | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrintMigrant workers wait in long, serpentine queues to board buses organised by the Delhi government, at the Anand Vihar Bus Terminal | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrintAt a Covid Care Centre in Gujarat’s Vadodara, 50-year-old Sanjay Kumar Parekh salutes his 85-year-old mother Shardaben, who recovered from Covid-19 | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrintIn Delhi’s Jahangirpuri, people inside a containment zone seek help from the other side of a Delhi Police barricade | Photo: Manisha Mondal | ThePrintMigrant workers travelling from Benaras to Bihar wait for their turn to board a bus. Their body temperatures and other details were taken before they boarded the vehicles | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrintA sex worker carries out her household chores. The pandemic completely shut down business for these workers, who spent most days worrying about the future | Manisha Mondal | ThePrintPeople who recovered from Covid-19 stand for a group photograph, with proper social distancing in place, on the lawn of a quarantine centre in Vadodara | Praveen Jain | ThePrintDesperate to reach home, migrant workers fight to get ahead in a queue for buses at Delhi’s Chhatarpur area | Manisha Mondal | ThePrintMasks hang on hooks inside a train going from New Delhi to Vijaywada in Andhra Pradesh. The family was using the hooks that would have otherwise held the curtains inside the AC compartment of the Rajdhani train | Manisha Mondal | ThePrintWorkers use cloth harnesses to place the body of a deceased coronavirus patient inside a grave at Jadid Qabristan Ahle Islam cemetery in Delhi, a Covid-19 designated burial ground | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrintA Christian family at a funeral at the Alpha Omega Christian Welfare Cemetery in Delhi’s Mangolpuri. This is also a designated Covid-19 cemetery | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrintThe body of seven-month-old Azhar, who died of Covid-19, was buried at Delhi’s Jadid Qabristan by graveyard authorities. His family was unable to perform the last rites due to lack of funds, which forced them to leave Delhi | Photo: Manisha Mondal | ThePrintAmrit Bhai Panchal, a 64-year-old Covid-19 patient, sings ‘Gulaabi aankhein’ for a group of doctors and paramedics inside a Covid-19 ward of a hospital in Ahmedabad | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrintAt a cremation ground in Surat, Abdul Rehman Malbari, a caretaker, gives ‘Gangajal’ to a deceased patient, in accordance with the Hindu custom | Praveen Jain | ThePrintPrisoners eat a meal at a Vadodara Municipal Corporation-owned guesthouse, called Lalbaug Atithigruh. As many as 64 of them were shifted here after 68 inmates at the Vadodara Central Jail tested positive for Covid-19. The guesthouse was converted into an isolation facility | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrintAll Covid-19 positive inmates were in handcuffs at the isolation centre | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrintLocals gathered by a mobile testing van in Sahnewal village near Ludhiana to get tested for the novel coronavirus. Punjab has consistently recorded the highest case fatality rate in India for several months now | Praveen Jain | ThePrintA family prays for a loved one while performing the last rites. Delhi saw its cases jump during the third wave of Covid-19 in November | Photo: Manisha Mondal | ThePrint
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