Mary P Crowther ARPS

The year 2020 has been ravaged by an unknown highly infectious disease, Coronavirus: Covid-19

High infectious mortality rates putting an enormous strain on our National Health Service, with personal welfare and the country’s economy also affected in immeasurable ways.

Between March and December 2020 a web of restrictive regulations were imposed nationally through lockdowns and varied localised tier systems to try to alleviate the spread of the virus. Here are just a few momentary snapshots of some scenes seen across my local community.

Imposed isolation periods, personal welfare, mental and physical health were a serious test of human strength and resilience. Mobile apps rapidly expanded with an array of functions for personalised information, tracking and trace.

COVID-19 Vaccine: Tuesday 8th December 2020 at 06:30 GMT the first person in the world received the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine as part of a mass vaccination programme. We are approaching the end of a world pandemic.

Ironically this first image was one of the last photographs taken in the weeks preceding the national lockdown.