he scan of lungs of a COVID patient. London. UK. 2020. © Stuart Franklin | Magnum Photos

atient. London. UK. 2020. © Stuart Franklin | Magnum Photos

industry to a dramatic halt, and with it, the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of workers. The ancient Kings Highway is first mentioned in the Old Testament, as the route that Moses wished to follow as he led his people north through the land of Edom, now southern Jordan.. Kings Highway. Jordan. 22 April, 2020. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos

habilitation Service). France. Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. April 29, 2020. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos

this time of the pandemic, we could not go around to visit our relatives to give out the red eggs as one would usually do. Instead, we video-called your grandma, grandpa, aunty and cousins in Singapore and they made red eggs too to show you on a screen. A month ago you had a traumatic entry into the world. Your heart rate was falling after I had been in labour for more than 20 hours in a busy hospital at the peak of the Covid 19 pandemic here in the UK. A team of doctors burst into the delivery room and pulled you out with forceps. I developed sepsis in labour and lost about one-third of my body’s blood. There was no happy, picture-perfect photo of us and Papa right after your birth, with you suckling on my chest. I was in a state of shock and no milk flowed. You too seemed dazed from been clamped over your head and yanked out. For a week after, your face bore the marks of the big metal forceps, and even now a scab remains on the right side of your head. It was not at all the birth we had planned and longed for. Pandemic-related hospital rules meant I had to labour alone for part of your birth, and one bad thing led too another. I’ve had nightmares and shed tears, but what’s important is that you are here, and we are watching you grow daily, marveling at how your eye lashes and legs grow longer and longer. In the month since, I have been guilt-ridden about not being able to breastfeed you from the get-go, and have been playing catch-up since. It’s been an intense start to motherhood. At 41 and into my third career, I’ve done a fair bit in life, but this has got to be the toughest gig yet. It’s harder still in this lockdown here in London, where most of your health checks have been by video or phone, where we’ve found it hard to get help as new parents, or to even buy food or diapers. May things turn around by the time you mark your next lunar month here." GB. May 7, 2020. © Sim Chi Yin | Magnum Photos

us diseases, and on care for their victims. Since the beginning of the COVID -19 outbreak, led by  professor Didier Raoult, the IHU teams have been on the frontline of the crisis delivering research studies, offering a free tests for the diagnosis of COVID-19 infection, and treating the ill. At the entrance of the IHU, COVID-19 tests are given. The tests are free of charge and anybody can get one after providing ID and a phone number so that they can be contacted once the sample is analyzed. Marseille, France. April 2020. © Antoine d’ Agata | Magnum Photos

emic has brought Jordan's vital tourism industry to a dramatic halt, and with it, the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of workers. The ancient Kings Highway is first mentioned in the Old Testament, as the route that Moses wished to follow as he led his people north through the land of Edom, now southern Jordan. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos

rtment and COVID patient. © Stuart Franklin | Magnum Photos

rtment examining the scan of lungs of a COVID patient. © Stuart Franklin | Magnum Photos