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The lost year: 12 months of coronavirus

  • Covid timeline trail picture

    Covid chaos: how the UK handled the coronavirus crisis

    A journey through a year of announcements, U-turns, lockdowns, denials, tests – and more than 100,000 deaths
  • Hurricane Genevieve is seen from the International Space Station orbiting Earth in August 2020

    Could Covid lockdown have helped save the planet?

    Slowdown of human activity was too short to reverse years of destruction, but we saw a glimpse of post-fossil fuel world
  • Juliet Anyanwu, a Covid response nurse in Lagos, Nigeria.

    ‘If we don’t do it, who will?': a year on the frontline of Covid-19

  • Guardian Weekly cover 18 December 2020

    The lost year: inside the 18 December edition of the Guardian Weekly

  • Covid science collaboration illustrations

    The great project: how Covid changed science for ever

    The emergence of a novel coronavirus prompted a wave of global collaboration that has led to vaccines, treatments and the promise of new discoveries
  • A worker disinfects the Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira, an underground church built into a salt mine, in Zipaquira, 45km north of Bogota, on 30 August 30, 2020, during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. - The Salt Cathedral, one of Colombia's main touristic attractions, is waiting for an authorization from the Health Ministry for its reopening. (Photo by Juan BARRETO / AFP) (Photo by JUAN BARRETO/AFP via Getty Images)

    Coronavirus: the key moments in 2020 – timeline

    From December 2019, when an unknown virus was found in China, to the release of vaccines for Covid-19 – here are the points where momentum shifted
  • Illustration of mirror image of woman. One distorted as if through a plastic sheet; the other wearing a mask.

    Has a year of living with Covid-19 rewired our brains?

    The pandemic is expected to precipitate a mental health crisis, but perhaps also a chance to approach life with new clarity
  • Greater horseshoe bat.

    Origin story: what do we know now about where coronavirus came from?

    When Chinese scientists alerted colleagues to a new virus last December, suspicion fell on a Wuhan market. What have health officials learned since then?
  • Volunteers fumigate a street in Nairobi in April.

    The magnifying glass: how Covid revealed the truth about our world

    The pandemic has illuminated deprivation, inequalities and political unrest, while reminding us of the power and beauty of nature and humanity
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