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By Nectar Gan, Adam Renton, Kara Fox and Harry Clarke-Ezzidio, CNN Updated 8:51 p.m. ET, December 31, 2020 What you need to know New Year’s Eve celebrations across the globe will be different, downscaled or canceled due to Covid-19 precautions. The US reported a record Covid-19 death toll for a second straight day. The CDCs ensemble forecast now projects there will be up to 424,000 US deaths by Jan. 23. The new Covid-19 variant, first identified in the UK, has been found in Southern Califo...

Fauci says spreading out first doses of Covid-19 vaccine to more people "under consideration" From CNNs Naomi Thomas Dr. Anthony Fauci is pictured before receiving his first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine on December 22 in Bethesda, Maryland. Patrick Semansky/Pool/Getty Images Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said Thursday, that spreading out the first doses of Covid-19 vaccine to more people is "under consideration." The Pfizer shot requires ...

China sentences citizen journalist to four years in prison for Wuhan lockdown reports Lily Kuo UP NEXT TAIPEI, Taiwan —A citizen journalist who documented the desperation of residents in Wuhan at the height of Chinas coronavirus outbreak was sentenced to four years in prison Monday in a case that underlined Beijings extreme sensitivity to criticism of its pandemic response. In a closed-door trial that lasted less than three hours, authorities in Shanghai handed down the ...

China jails citizen journalist for four years over Wuhan virus reports 28 Dec 2020 Police stand at the entrance of the Shanghai Pudong New District People’s Court in Shanghai. Leo Ramirez/ AFP A Chinese citizen journalist was jailed for four years for her livestream reporting from Wuhan as the Covid-19 outbreak unfurled, her lawyer said on Monday, almost a year after details of an “unknown viral pneumonia” surfaced in the central China city. Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer, was...

You are here Home > The Agency > Awards > The Guardian Names AFPs Hector Retamal Agency Photographer of the Year Awards The Guardian Names AFPs Hector Retamal Agency Photographer of the Year The British daily notably praised the Shanghai-based Chilean photographer for his coverage of the Wuhan crisis, the city where the first cases of Covid-19 were detected. He has made trips to the Chinese megalopolis all throughout 2020, most recently documenting its retur...

Last modified on Fri 5 Feb 2021 12.10 EST There was one unavoidable story of 2020, which touched everyone around the world: the coronavirus pandemic. What is fascinating about Hector Retamal’s work is that he has covered the crisis almost exclusively in China, which bore the initial impact and led the events that followed around the globe in the months to come. Images that came to dominate our consciousness were first seen in Wuhan as the virus struck. Retamal’s photojournalism follow...