The coronavirus (Covid-19) uprooted the daily lives of nations and once it reached New York City within weeks it would become the epicenter of the pandemic. The following images are a visual diary of a calamity with no clear end.
BRONX, NY - APRIL 2: A woman wears a face mask as she walks up to the subway on Apr 2, 2020, in New York City. (Photo by David Dee Delgado / Bloomberg News)
NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 30: Samaritan's Purse, a Christian humanitarian aid organization has set up the tents in cooperation with FEMA at Central Parks East meadow in New York City, NEW YORK, U.S., March 30, 2020. (REUTERS / David ‘Dee’ Delgado)
NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 27: A woman wears a medical face mask, latex gloves and an umbrella to cover herself as she walks in China Town on Feb 26, 2020 in New York City. Fears of a corona virus pandemic rises with cases spreading to forty seven countries. (Photo by David Dee Delgado / Bloomberg)
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 14: A nurse sits on a bus after her shift at Lincoln Hospital on April 14, 2020, in the Bronx borough of New York City. Nurses and supporters at a vigil held at Lincoln Hospital expressed solidarity with Healthcare workers nationwide and demanded members of the NYSNA (New York State Nurses Association) receive the necessary PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) to conduct their jobs safely. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 20: A person says a prayer while standing in line for COVID-19 testing at NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, Morrisania on April 20, 2020, in Bronx borough of New York City. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Friday, April 17th that 10 new COVID-19 testing sites would be opening across the city. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 21: Fire Department of New York medical staff attend to an elderly person experiencing difficulty breathing outside of an apartment building on April 21, 2020, in the Bronx borough of New York City. Daily death toll numbers related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) continue to decrease in the tri-state region, but New York City has surpassed 132,000 cases since the outbreak. (Photo by David Dee Delgado)
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 15: A person wears a medical face mask on April 15, 2020, in Queens borough of New York City. During his daily briefing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he would invoke an executive order requiring citizens to wear facial coverings while in public and in situations when social distancing is not possible. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 7: A EMT takes a moment in front of NYU Langone Hospital on April 7, 2020, in New York, United States. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Tuesday in his daily briefing that 731 people had died since the prior day of the virus, the state’s highest one-day total (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
BRONX, NY - APRIL 8: A normally very busy 163rd street on April 8, 2020 in New York City. New York State has reported the largest death count to date with 779 deaths in a 24 hour period related to Covid-19, New York State now has more confirmed Covid-19 cases than any country 149,316. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
BROOKLYN NY - APRIL 8: Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center employees transport the deceased to refrigerated trucks on April 8, 2020, in New York City.BROOKLYN NY - APRIL 8: Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center is one of the city’s hardest impacted hospital the hospital currently has had to place the deceased into refrigerated trucks. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 14: A member of the medical staff walks by a sigh thanking medical workers prior to a vigil at Lincoln Hospital on April 14, 2020, in the Bronx borough of New York City. Those at the vigil expressed solidarity with Healthcare workers nationwide and demanded members of the NYSNA (New York State Nurses Association) receive the necessary PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) to conduct their jobs safely. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
BRONX, NY - MARCH 30: A Soldier of the United States National Guard at the entrance of a Covid-19 testing sight in the parking lot of Bay Plaza at Co-Op in Bronx, NEW YORK, U.S., March 30, 2020. (REUTERS / David ‘Dee’ Delgado)
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 08: People stand in line at East River Plaza to go shopping at Costco and Target on April 8, 2020, in New York City. Social Distancing has been proven to help flatten the curve, experts continue to recommend a minimum distance of six feet be kept by all individuals who do not share a household. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 16: A street vendor sells face masks and covers outside of the 125th Street MTA station on April 16, 2020, in New York City. During his daily news briefing on Thursday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed $2 billion in budget cuts beginning July 1 to balance the city's budget amid the coronavirus pandemic. The mayor also called upon President Trump to push for Congress to provide more stimulus funds to state and local governments. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 22: Medical staff at ProHEALTH Care’s Circle urgent care clinic preform coronavirus (COVID-19) testing in the parking lot of their clinic on April 22, 2020, in the Staten Island borough of New York City. Testing sites continue to open throughout the city with five new facilities opening next week. In New York City, nearly 10,000 people have died due to COVID-19 with more than 130,000 reported cases, according to New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
BROOKLYN NY - APRIL 3: Wycoff Hospital medical staff transport a deceased person to the refrigerated trucks outside of the hospital on April 3, 2020, in New York City. The city has placed refrigerated trucks outside many hospitals to accommodate for the overcrowded morgues. (Photo by David Dee Delgado)
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 10: A person wearing a medical mask stands on the MTA Subway platform in Jackson Heights, Queens on April 10, 2020, in New York City. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo during his daily briefing on Covid19 shared that Hospitalizations have decrease as well as ICU admissions. The state has experienced 777 new deaths over nigh and the state’s death toll now stands at 7,844. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 10: Javier Camillo an MTA bus driver has his temperature taken before starting his shift at the West Farms Bus Depot on April 10, 2020, in New York City. The “Temperature Brigade” program, as the MTA calls it, is taken with taking the temperature and logging the information for front line workers as the coronavirus continues to ravage the transit authority. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 3: A solider talks to a medical examiners staff member between refrigerated trucks outside of the medical examiner’s office on April 3, 2020, in New York City. The city has placed refrigerated trucks outside of the medical examiner’s office to accommodate the overcrowded morgues. (Photo by David Dee Delgado)
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 20: Fire Department of New York medical staff attend to an elderly person experiencing difficulty breathing outside of an apartment building on April 20, 2020, in New York City. NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announced during his daily COVID-19 briefing that the city has had a big drop in 911 emergency medical calls after a surge during the peak of the pandemic. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty)
BROOKLYN NY - APRIL 3: Wycoff Hospital medical staff rolls an empty medical bed down the street after transporting a deceased person to the refrigerated trucks outside of the hospital on April 3, 2020, in New York City. The city has placed refrigerated trucks outside many hospitals to accommodate the overcrowded morgues. (Photo by David Dee Delgado)
BROOKLYN NY - APRIL 3: Wycoff Hospital medical staff transport a deceased person to the refrigerated trucks outside of the hospital on April 3, 2020, in New York City. The city has placed refrigerated trucks outside many hospitals to accommodate the overcrowded morgues (Photo by David Dee Delgado)
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 9: National Guard soldiers along with members of the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission load cars with meals to be distributed at the Bronx Kingsbridge Armory on April 9, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. New York City has created GetFoodNYC, a food delivery program for the COVID-19 vulnerable. TLC licensed drivers will deliver meals while being compensated $15 an hour, plus mileage and tolls. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 14: A police officer crosses the street at a normally very busy Times Square on March 12, 2020, in New York City. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 24: A person waits with their dog at the parking lot of the Animal Medical Center next to tents erected as makeshift waiting rooms on March 24, 2020, in New York City. Two dogs have tested positive for Covid-19 in the southern China region in the past week. The World Health Organization (WHO) has posted on the Covid-19 information page of their website "While there has been one instance of a dog being infected in Hong Kong, to date, there is no evidence that a dog, cat, or any pet can transmit COVID-19." (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 22: Members of World Vision pray over emergency kits containing food and essential supplies. The kits being distributed at New Hope Community Church are intended to help low-income families during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on April 22, 2020, in the Staten Island borough of New York City. World Vision International is an Evangelical Christian humanitarian aid organization. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 20: A person walks by a closed business in Harlem due to the non-essential business restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic. (David 'Dee' Delgado/ WNYC / Gothamist)
