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this week’s issue of time is a special report on the crown centered around the current pandemic. It has six different covers, each concerned with a portrait of people directly by the virus derived from the hard Life Care Center tragically struck in Kirkland, Washington., On the balconies of Tehran and the streets of China. Together they provide a sense of how COVID-19 is a normal people around the world forced to adapt to a new reality. Cheryl Chutter, 51, Stamford, United States As a photographer Angela Strass recently went Cheryl Chutter in Stamford, Connecticut visit Conn .., You were not there on a mission, but as a friend. Chutter, 51, has been reached on their first day and quarantine Strassheim with COVID-19 was diagnosed on March 17 Chutter to leave something to eat for Chutter and his son at the door. As they approached the house, he saw Chutter in the window, wearing a mask, and I was surprised how strong the mask seemed to visually convey the frustration, fear and isolation she felt her friend. Crystal asked if he could snap a quick photo on their iPhone, and returned with his camera the next day. “For me it sums up where we are now. We’re all held captive in our homes and the window is like a mirror to himself to look back,” he says. “I’m the same person in your own home if you have the mask or not.” Think Chutter that she was infected when he attended a birthday party in Westport, Conn., The beginning of March. About a week after the meeting, he learned that one of the participants, who had traveled abroad recently, tested positive for 19-COVID Until then, he had already been in a hospital and once to a system of urgent care because of high fever, chills, muscle aches and utter exhaustion. But it was only after the party, found in contact with someone who was COVID-19 was diagnosed that she was able to get a test kit because it was so poor. When he finally got his positive test in March 17 after eight days of quarantine, he said one word: “relief, I felt relief. Now I knew I was able to test my father. I want to be safe. I want to take care of my son, consideration for others and I do not leave my house until the quarantine is over. “Since the party has tested 20 participants in the survey. their second week of entering quarantine, Chutter tried to stay positive, but the isolation, especially social, the forced removal of the child is emotionally challenging. “I was told as little contact with my son as much as possible,” it said. “I can not prepare meals for him. I wear a mask and gloves at home. I can not be near him.” -Paul Moakley and forms Alice Park Judie, 81, Kirkland, Wash., For the past three weeks we Lori Spencer was only their 81-year-old mother, Judie form below, see through a glass window, Spencer checked his mother in the house care Life care Center in Kirkland, Washington, on February 26. Since then, the institution has become epicenters of the epidemic COVID-19 in the United States. Connect at least 30 deaths were in the middle. According to another facility for residents are COVID-19 positive results, tried to form to take the test, but said that they had to wait 11 days. The tool officials have said they do not spread enough evidence for the residents as the outbreak, according to the Associated Press. Spencer described the test as “surreal and provocative.” After all tested positive form. Spencer went to visit her at the Life Care Center, but remain separated by a window. image freelance photographer David Ryder made of mother and daughter through this communication barrier attracted attention after being released by Reuters. On behalf TIME, he returned to the plant on March 17 for a portrait posed by the duo. Given the situation at Life Care Center, Ryder was not allowed in the premises, which is about 100 feet, a powerful zoom lens and had to call on their cell phone to work with them on their position at the Spencer window. Ryder says the main purpose of photography to convey was “loved ones are trying to connect.” “It’s the strangest situation where someone something to go with this disease so difficult to … and you can not embrace,” said Ryder. “And the soothing voice, you can not really feel that it’s not quite the same, just with a phone that is.” For Spencer, the window of his mother means separates a lack of control. “If I look at the glass, what it means to me that there was no control, no matter what the person on the other side of love,” says Spencer. “Everything lost control.” The form is now doing well, despite the difficulties, says Spencer. “At least I can see my mother.” -Andrew Katz and Mansoor Sanya Zhixiao Gao, 32, Beijing broke Since the outbreak in China, Gao Zhixiao, a 32-year-old delivery driver lives in Beijing had to take a health check and spend 20 minutes released his bike and clothing disinfected every day before starting its journey. Make without any drivers like Gao, who works for the giant delivery Meituan to goods in their homes, families would be hungry and get sick non-essential goods. Fortunately, Gao is not COVID 19-contract, but he puts his health at risk every day. Elmira Laki, 30 and Elahe Laki, 33, Tehran Since the virus spread in Iran one of the most affected countries to date-Elmira Laki, 30, decided to self-quarantine cautiously in Tehran home Elahe sister, 33 , to be. In this image from March 3 Elmira is located on the balcony of her sister; Elahe face in the window, seen by reflected light, the photo was taken. Patrick Walker, 52, of London after learning that he had been exposed to COVID-19 to anyone, Patrick Walker, 52, a technology entrepreneur and startup co-founder Uptime also started quarantined at his home in London on 9 March, five days later tested positive for the virus. “They can be picked are the [Crown] test in a meeting with someone sitting living,” says Walker. “Many more people have it than they think.” This march 18 portrait shows him in front of his home with his wife and children Henri Noemie Olivero Walker and Celeste, all of which tested negative so far. Northern Italy took Fulvio Avantaggiato, 60, Torre d’Isola, Italy COVID-19 harder than almost anywhere else in the world. In an effort to stop the spread of the virus, the Italian authorities have imposed travel restrictions should last at least until the beginning of April compared to the 60 million inhabitants of the country. Fulvio Avantaggiato, 60, is a radiologist emergency room at San Matteo Hospital in Pavia, northern Italy; When not working, he quarantined away from his wife and daughter in their home
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