Dr. Joseph Varon hugs and comforts a COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) patient during Thanksgiving at United Memorial Medical Center on November 26, 2020 in Houston, Texas. Texas has reportedly reached more than 1,220,000 cases, including more than 21,500 deaths. (Photo by Go Nakamura / Getty Images)
As the year draws to a close, here is an impressive but incomplete gallery of images from around the world.
The destroyed buildings are visible a day after a massive explosion occurred at the port on August 5, 2020 in Beirut, Lebanon. (Photo by Daniel Carde / Getty Images)The destroyed buildings are visible a day after a massive explosion occurred at the port on August 5, 2020 in Beirut, Lebanon. (Photo by Daniel Carde / Getty Images)Artist and musician Raymond Essayan plays a piano that he sculpted in part in the shape of a grand piano from the rubble in a destroyed building while recording a music video for the piece he wrote to be released in dedication to Beirut after the explosion of last week on August 14. , 2020 in Beirut, Lebanon. (Photo by Chris McGrath / Getty Images)Thai students wear face masks and sit at desks with plastic screens used for social distancing at Wat Khlong Toey school on August 10, 2020 in Bangkok, Thailand. (Photo by Lauren DeCicca / Getty Images)Seventh graders during their class session two days after school resumes on September 30, 2020 in Harare, Zimbabwe. (Photo by Tafadzwa Ufumeli / Getty Images)Customers sit inside methacrylate cubicles to aid social distancing in the wholesale auction room at Multiflora Flower Market (PTY) Ltd. in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers / Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFormer Vice President Joe Biden, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, invites his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) on stage to deliver remarks at Alexis Dupont High School on August 12, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by Drew Angerer / Getty Images)The presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) arrive to deliver remarks at Alexis Dupont High School on August 12, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by Drew Angerer / Getty Images)The presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, puts the mask back on after delivering his remarks following a coronavirus briefing with health experts at the DuPont Hotel on August 13, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by Drew Angerer / Getty Images)Naomi Osaka of Japan wears a protective face mask with the name Ahmaud Arbery etched on it after winning her women’s singles third round match against Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine on the fifth day of the 2020 US Open at the Billie Jean National Tennis Center King of the USTA on September 04, 2020 in the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Al Bello / Getty Images)A fly briefly lands on the head of United States Vice President Mike Pence during the vice presidential debate against Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) at the University of Utah on October 7, 2020 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Photo by Alex Wong / Getty Images)Rudy Giuliani speaks to the press about various lawsuits related to the 2020 elections, inside the Republican National Committee headquarters on November 19, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer / Getty Images)EFF President Julius Malema will appear before the Randburg Magistrates Court on October 13, 2020 in Randburg, South Africa. (Photo by Gallo Images / Sharon Seretlo)People stand at the fountain as they celebrate in Washington Square Park after it was announced that Democratic candidate Joe Biden would be the next president of the United States on November 7, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Stephanie Keith / Getty Images)Shudufhadzo Musida (24) is currently a student pursuing a BA with honors in International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is from Ha-Masia in Limpopo is the new Miss SA 2020 with Thato Mosehle (25), a doctor who is currently completing his Klerksdorp internship in the second northwest and Natasha Joubert (23) is a Centurion PR officer, Tshwane in Gauteng third. photo: Jaco MaraisA wedding is taking place outside the registry office on October 26, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Asanka Ratnayake / Getty Images)A house burns as the sun sets behind smoke and flames during the Bobcat Fire on September 18, 2020 in Juniper Hills, California. (Photo by Mario Tama / Getty Images)A ship passes under the Bay Bridge as smoke from several wildfires burning in Northern California mixes with the marine layer, blanketing San Francisco in darkness and an orange glow on September 9, 2020 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Philip Pacheco / Getty Images)People listen to a speaker at a Black Lives Matters (BLM) protest in a Brooklyn park on September 24, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt / Getty Images)South Africa’s Lebohang Manyama during the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match between South Africa and Sao Tome and Principe at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium on November 16, 2020 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. (Photo by Steve Haag / Gallo Images)A sign indicates keep a safe distance on November 10, 2020 in Cambridge, England. England entered a second national coronavirus lockdown on Nov.5. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole / Getty Images)Dr. Concetta Toccio checks a home patient for Covid-19 on November 25, 2020 in Florence, Italy. Italy’s Continuity Special Care Units (USCA) were created in 2020 to carry out activities at home for COVID-19 patients. (Photo by Gianluca Panella / Getty Images)Stephanie, a member of the medical staff, takes a short nap at the COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) nursing station at United Memorial Medical Center on December 14, 2020 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Go Nakamura / Getty Images)Sandra Lindsay, left, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester on December 14, 2020 in the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Mark Lennihan – Pool / Getty Images)From left, medical staff members Kirbie Standley, Gabriel Cervera Rodríguez, Diana Escalante, Quantavia Love and Ladarious Styles dance to a Christmas song at the COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) nursing station at United Memorial Medical Center on December 10. , 2020 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Go Nakamura / Getty Images)Models wear creations by Guinean designer Bisau Bibas during an open-air show for Dakar Fashion Week on December 12, 2020, outside Dakar, Senegal (Photo by Finbarr O’Reilly / Getty Images).Former President Jacob Zuma, at the Zondo Commission on November 17, 2020 in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo by Gallo Images / Sharon Seretlo)Mounted police during beach closures in Durban, South Africa, on December 16, 2020 (Photo by Gallo Images / Darren Stewart)A woman walks through the city center on December 7, 2020 in Manchester, UK. (Photo by Christopher Furlong / Getty Images)
A warm thank you to Kim McCarthy of Gallo Images for her generous help in producing this selection of images. DM / ML
