News Photo Awards kicks off its second global contest dubbed ‘A Changing World’

WHO representative praises TASS exhibition dedicated to the fight against coronavirus

Period to submit entries

Professional jury’s assessments

Winners to be announced

This is the future that no one could have imagined a year ago. These words echo everywhere nowadays. What started as a shock for Muscovites in the early spring, became the new normal by December. Masks, social distancing, online parties, and lockdowns - these are the words used to describe our life now. But for some life is totally different and it’s just over in the corner - inside hospital walls, where doctors and hospital staff fight for the lives of patients.

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MSK. Red Zone.

An overall view of treatment blocks at a temporary hospital in the Krylatskoye Ice Palace, where patients suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) undergo treatment in Moscow, Russia, November 13, 2020.

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No one could Imagine

In April-May 2020, New York City was the global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic with up to 1,000 people dying per day. To date, over 24,000 individuals have now lost their lives to COVID-19 in the Big Apple. These images chronicle the daily battle against the pandemic throughout NYC: from medical workers loading refrigerated morgue trailers with bodies, to inside coronavirus hospital wards and funeral homes.

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In the epicenter of COVID-19

Medical workers and patients in Children's City Clinical Hospitals that treat kids infected with COVID-19.

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Covid Kids

A series of images about the changes in everyday life due to the new coronavirus infection. 
1) January 28, 2020 - A quarantine and sanitary station employee checks the temperature of passengers arriving from Beijing on board a plane at Tolmachevo airport, in Novosibirsk, Russia. Russian airports step up their screening of travelers arriving from China to try to identify people infected with the new coronavirus. 
2) March 28, 2020 – An image shows an interior of a cafe closed amid the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, Russia. President Vladimir Putin declares the following week a non-working one, and regional authorities decide to close all cafes and restaurants recommending that the operation of shopping and entertainment centers and service organizations be suspended until April 5th. 
3) March 30, 2020 - Fitness trainer Anastasia Salamatina livestreams a class at her house due to the coronavirus outbreak, in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, Russia. 
4) April 15, 2020 - A mannequin wearing a protective face mask is pictured in a closed shop window amid the coronavirus outbreak, in Novosibirsk, Russia. 
5) March 25, 2020 – An image depicts an empty lecture hall at the Novosibirsk State Technical University as schools and universities close to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease in Novosibirsk, Russia. 
6) May 7, 2020 - World War Two veteran Tatyana Belesova is congratulated by social workers to mark the 75th anniversary of the Victory over Nazi Germany, on her balcony in Novosibirsk, Russia. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this annual celebration is held by aerial platform to avoid any dangers to public health. 
7) May 26, 2020 - A man donning a face mask has his temperature checked as he sells dried fruits at a local market as the municipal authorities ease some of the coronavirus lockdown restrictions in Novosibirsk, Russia. 
8) September 12, 2020 - Members of a mobile electoral commission carry a ballot box and a tent for voting during the gubernatorial elections in the village of Rassokha, in Russia’s Irkutsk Region. 
9) October 15, 2020 - A police officer wearing protective face mask and gloves inspects mandatory face mask compliance at the Krasny Prospekt subway station, in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, Russia. 
10) November 10, 2020 - Medics wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) are seen through the windows of the infectious disease ward at City Clinical Hospital №25, in Novosibirsk, Russia. 
11) December 2, 2020 - A worker moves a coffin with a window for a deceased person who passed away from coronavirus at the workshop of the Pamyat funeral home in the city of Novoaltaisk, in Russia’s Altai Region. 
12) December 9, 2020 - A medical worker prepares the Gam-COVID-VAK (trademark "Sputnik V") coronavirus immunization shot at a COVID-19 vaccination center located at Novosibirsk’s city polyclinic No. 2, in Russia.

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Pandemic in Siberia

A medical team member pictured in a goodbye kiss at the Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport in Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province, February 16, 2020. The medical team comprised of 337 medical workers from Guizhou left for Ezhou in central China's Hubei to aid the novel coronavirus control efforts there.

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Kiss

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A Changing
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Organizer: TASS News Agency

News Photo Awards. A Changing World

Timeline

News

Organizer: TASS News Agency

News Photo
Awards.
A Changing
World