World without crowds: Photos of empty cities in coronavirus lockdown
March 27, 2020
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Photographers working through the novel coronavirus pandemic are providing a dystopian glimpse of a world without people, as some of humanity’s most populated sites are cleared of their crowds due to fears of spreading the COVID-19 disease.
Here’s what a world without (most) people looks like:
Fujairah 27/03/2020 – Morning TimeShaikh Zayed Road, opposite Dubai Future Museum. Image Credit: Antonin Kélian Kallouche/Gulf NewsMuslims circumambulate the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia – AP/Amr NabilA general view of the empty Safdarjung tomb after it was temporarily shut down for public visits as a precautionary measure due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, in New Delhi, March 2020. EPA/RAJAT GUPTA