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2020: Images of the year we never expected (and never loved) (Part Two)

As the year draws to an end, here is a striking yet incomplete gallery of images from around the world.
Maverick Life Editors
By Maverick Life Editors
23 Dec
Australians Rally In Solidarity With Black Lives Matter Movement A protester wears a shirt with the words 'I cant Breathe' on June 06, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. Events across Australia have been organised in solidarity with protests in the United States following the killing of an unarmed black man George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota and to rally against aboriginal deaths in custody in Australia. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)

A nurse attends to a COVID-19 patient that is wearing a CPAP helmet while he is moved out of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Pope John XXIII Hospital on April 7, 2020 in Bergamo, Italy. The number of new COVID-19 cases appears to be decreasing in Italy, including in the province of Bergamo, one of its hardest-hit areas. But as the infection rate slows, life is still far from normal. A local newspaper, the Eco di Bergamo, estimates that the province has lost roughly 4,800 people to coronavirus - almost twice an official tally that only counts hospital deaths - and everyone here knows someone who's fallen ill: a neighbor, a family member, a relative, a friend or an acquaintance. Since February 23, the day of the first COVID-19 hospitalization, nearly 1,600 people have been hospitalized at Pope John XXIII hospital in Bergamo. Although the situation is improving, the hospital continues to see a high volume of coronavirus patients. On the busiest days during the crisis, its emergency room saw peaks of more than 100 serious coronavirus patients and used up to 146 CPAP helmets to provide non-invasive ventilation. More than 450 additional hospital beds were activated in just a few days, with 92 ICU beds devoted to COVID-19 patients. (Photo by Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)
A nurse attends to a COVID-19 patient that is wearing a CPAP helmet while he is moved out of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Pope John XXIII Hospital on April 7, 2020 in Bergamo, Italy.  (Photo by Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)
Chinese workers and health officials wear protective white suits as travellers from Wuhan gather to take buses as they are processed and taken to do 14 days of quarantine, after arriving on the first trains to Beijing on April 8, 2020 in Beijing, China. China lifted its lockdown on Wuhan, the first epicentre of COVID-19 after 76 days, allowing healthy people to leave. China recorded for the first time since January 21st no coronavirus-related deaths. With the pandemic hitting hard across the world, officially the number of coronavirus cases in China is dwindling, ever since the government imposed sweeping measures to keep the disease from spreading. For more than two months, millions of people across China have been restricted in how they move from their homes, while other cities have been locked down in ways that appeared severe at the time but are now being replicated in other countries trying to contain the virus. Officials believe the worst appears to be over in China, though there are concerns of another wave of infections as the government attempts to reboot the worlds second largest economy. In Beijing, it is mandatory to wear masks outdoors, some retail stores still operate on reduced hours, restaurants employ social distancing among patrons, and tourist attractions at risk of drawing large crowds remain closed or allow only limited access. Monitoring and enforcement of virus-related measures and the quarantine of anyone arriving to Beijing is carried out by neighborhood committees and a network of Communist Party volunteers who wear red arm bands. Since January, China has recorded more than 81,000 cases of COVID-19 and at least 3200 deaths, mostly in and around the city of Wuhan, in central Hubei province, where the outbreak first started. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Chinese workers and health officials wear protective white suits as travellers from Wuhan gather to take buses as they are processed and taken to do 14 days of quarantine, after arriving on the first trains to Beijing on April 8, 2020 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Health workers conduct mass COVID-19 screening and testing on May 28, 2020 in Benoni, South Africa. (Photo by Gallo Images/OJ Koloti)
Health workers test for COVID-19 at a mobile testing centre at Springfield Informal Centre in Umgeni on April 29, 2020 in Durban, South Africa. According to media reports, the KZN provincial government together with the National Department of Health launched a community screening and testing programme to help in the fight against COVID-19.
Health workers test for COVID-19 at a mobile testing centre at Springfield Informal Centre in Umgeni on April 29, 2020 in Durban, South Africa. Gallo Images
A commuter wearing a protective face mask walks through a sanitation tunnel at the Rea-Vaya Thokoza Park bus station in the Soweto district of Johannesburg, South Africa, on Thursday, May 14, 2020. South Africa's government announced plans to further ease a nationwide lockdown as the fallout from shuttering much of the economy threatens to outweigh the damage wrought by the coronavirus. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images
A commuter wearing a protective face mask walks through a sanitation tunnel at the Rea-Vaya Thokoza Park bus station in the Soweto district of Johannesburg, South Africa, on Thursday, May 14, 2020. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Mark and Shireen Nicholson with help from family and friends feed more than 200 children and adults daily during lockdown in Lavender Hill on April 17, 2020 in Cape Town, South Africa. They rely on donors and Lucinda Evans feeding program that supplies cooked meals for them to distribute daily. (Photo by Gallo Images/Brenton Geach)
Mark and Shireen Nicholson with help from family and friends feed more than 200 children and adults daily during lockdown in Lavender Hill on April 17, 2020 in Cape Town, South Africa.  (Photo by Gallo Images/Brenton Geach)
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - MAY 20: In an aerial view by drone, new social distancing circles are shown at Dolores Park on May 20, 2020 in San Francisco, California. The move follows similar efforts by other parks in cities around the world in an effort to get back to some semblance of normalcy. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
In an aerial view by drone, new social distancing circles are shown at Dolores Park on May 20, 2020 in San Francisco, California.  (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
WUHAN, CHINA - JUNE 07: (CHINA OUT)A couple hug in the subway station in on June 7, 2020 in Wuhan,Hubei Province,China.Wuhan has seen its urban life gradually get back to normal following encouragement from local city management to open up street-stalls. Since January, China has recorded more than 81,000 cases of COVID-19 and at least 3200 deaths, mostly in and around the city of Wuhan, in central Hubei province, where the outbreak first started. (Photo by Getty Images)
A couple hug in the subway station in on June 7, 2020 in Wuhan,Hubei Province,China.(Photo by Getty Images)
Residents of an apartment building observe from a window a juggler, member of the artistic group Cirk La Putyka, while performing to entertain residents as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues on April 14, 2020 in Prague, Czech Republic. The Czech government has imposed a lockdown in an attempt to slow down the spread of the pandemic COVID-19 disease. The country has reported more than 6,000 cases of COVID-19. (Photo by Gabriel Kuchta/Getty Images)
Residents of an apartment building observe from a window a juggler, member of the artistic group Cirk La Putyka, while performing to entertain residents as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues on April 14, 2020 in Prague, Czech Republic.  (Photo by Gabriel Kuchta/Getty Images)
A Southwest Airlines flight takes off as United Airlines planes sit parked on a runway at Denver International Airport as the coronavirus pandemic slows air travel on April 22, 2020 in Denver, Colorado. Compared to the same time last year, Denver International Airport is operating 1,000 fewer flights daily. (Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)
A Southwest Airlines flight takes off as United Airlines planes sit parked on a runway at Denver International Airport as the coronavirus pandemic slows air travel on April 22, 2020 in Denver, Colorado.  (Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)
Firefighters prepare to conduct disinfection at the Wuhan Tianhe International Airport on April 3, 2020 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. Wuhan, the Chinese city hardest hit by the novel coronavirus outbreak, conducted a disinfection on the local airport as operations will soon resume on April 8 when the city lifts its travel restrictions. (Photo by Getty Images)
Firefighters prepare to conduct disinfection at the Wuhan Tianhe International Airport on April 3, 2020 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.  (Photo by Getty Images)
A young girl paints a picture of herself on the school window as children of key workers take part in school activities at Oldfield Brow Primary School on April 08, 2020 in Altrincham, England. The government announced the closure of UK schools from March 20 except for the children of key workers, such as NHS staff, and vulnerable pupils, such as those looked after by local authorities. The prime minister has said schools will remain closed "until further notice," and many speculate they may not reopen until next term. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
A young girl paints a picture of herself on the school window as children of key workers take part in school activities at Oldfield Brow Primary School on April 08, 2020 in Altrincham, England. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
A woman plays a violin on a balcony on April 09, 2020 in Seville, Spain. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak in Spain, traditional Easter celebrations will not be able to take place as planned. (Photo by Marcelo del Pozo/Getty Images)
A woman plays a violin on a balcony on April 09, 2020 in Seville, Spain. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak in Spain, traditional Easter celebrations will not be able to take place as planned. (Photo by Marcelo del Pozo/Getty Images)
A sign in Hackney is displayed on April 11, 2020 in London, England. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has spread to many countries across the world, claiming over 100,000 lives and infecting over 1. 7 million people. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images)
A sign in Hackney is displayed on April 11, 2020 in London, England. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has spread to many countries across the world, claiming over 100,000 lives and infecting over 1. 7 million people. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images)
People on their balconies applauding to pay tribute to healthcare workers struggling to fight the coronavirus pandemic on April 18, 2020 in Madrid, Spain. Spain is beginning to ease strict lockdown measures to ease its economy, people in some services including manufacturing, construction are being allowed to return to work but must adhere to strict safety guidelines. More than 20,100 people are reported to have died in Spain due to the COVID-19 outbreak, although the country has reported a decline in the daily number of deaths. (Photo by Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images)
People on their balconies applauding to pay tribute to healthcare workers struggling to fight the coronavirus pandemic on April 18, 2020 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images)
Local residents follow the courtyard concert "neigbour for neighbour" watching from a windows and balconies of buildings during the ongoing coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic on May 29, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. Window Flicks, who brought cinema to the people during the lockdown in Berlin is now organizing courtyard concerts for residents and office workers to enjoy from the comfort of their windows or balconies while maintaining social distancing. (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images)
Local residents follow the courtyard concert "neigbour for neighbour" watching from a windows and balconies of buildings during the ongoing coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic on May 29, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.  (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images)
A mural to honor the medics currently helping to fight COVID-19 is seen on April 22, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. All non-essential business are closed and strict social distancing rules are in place in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, while public gatherings are limited to two people. New South Wales and Victoria have enacted additional lockdown measures to allow police the power to fine people who breach the two-person outdoor gathering limit or leave their homes without a reasonable excuse. Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory have all closed their borders to non-essential travellers and international arrivals into Australia are being sent to mandatory quarantine in hotels for 14 days. (Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images)
A mural to honor the medics currently helping to fight COVID-19 is seen on April 22, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images)
A police officer looks on from a raised viewing platform on Oxford Street as non-essential stores re-open for the first time since the nationwide lockdown came into force, on June 16, 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The British government have relaxed coronavirus lockdown laws significantly from Monday June 15, allowing zoos, safari parks and non-essential shops to open to visitors. Places of worship will allow individual prayers and protective facemasks become mandatory on London Transport. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
A police officer looks on from a raised viewing platform on Oxford Street as non-essential stores re-open for the first time since the nationwide lockdown came into force, on June 16, 2020 in London, United Kingdom.  (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
A basket with toys hangs from a balcony with a sign that says 'For those who want. Everything will be fine' on May 07, 2020 in Madrid, Spain. Spain is opening businesses such as hairdressers, delivery food restaurants and book shops after weeks of lockdown. Spain has had more than 256,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and over 26,000 reported deaths, although the rate has declined due to lockdown measures. (Photo by Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images)
A basket with toys hangs from a balcony with a sign that says 'For those who want. Everything will be fine' on May 07, 2020 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images)
Concepcio Zendrera, 100 tries to touch the hands of her son, daughters and relatives during a visit through a window at La Mallola nursing home on May 19, 2020 in Esplugues del Llobregat, near Barcelona, Spain. As measures ease in Spain, nursing homes remains still locked down to protect elderly people and prevent new outbreaks. La Mallola nursing home has started a program of visits for relatives of residents using one of their big windows. Many of the hundreds of thousand of residents in Spain's nursing homes are already at risk for loneliness, which research shows can undermine their physical and mental health due to the strict quarantine measure to fight the novel coronavirus. This program aims to improve the lockdown of elderly people living in this nursing home as they approach their third month without visits of their close relatives. Over 18,000 elderly people in nursing homes have died in Spain due to COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images)
Concepcio Zendrera, 100 tries to touch the hands of her son, daughters and relatives during a visit through a window at La Mallola nursing home on May 19, 2020 in Esplugues del Llobregat, near Barcelona, Spain.  (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images)
Michelle Grant (R) hugs her mother, Mary Grace Sileo through a plastic drop cloth hung up on a homemade clothes line during Memorial Day Weekend on May 24, 2020 in Wantagh, New York. It is the first time they have had physical contact of any kind since the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic lockdown started in late February. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)
Michelle Grant (R) hugs her mother, Mary Grace Sileo through a plastic drop cloth hung up on a homemade clothesline during Memorial Day Weekend on May 24, 2020 in Wantagh, New York.  (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)
Petros the pelican roams through the Little Venice neighborhood freely amid a delayed tourist season on May 26, 2020 in Mykonos, Greece. After months of being on lockdown due to the coronavirus, Greece will begin to ease travel restrictions on movement between the mainland and the countrys islands. (Photo by Byron Smith/Getty Images)
Petros the pelican roams through the Little Venice neighborhood freely amid a delayed tourist season on May 26, 2020 in Mykonos, Greece.  (Photo by Byron Smith/Getty Images)
A woman with 'BLM' written on her cheek poses for a picture during a demonstration on May 31, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. Across the country, protests have erupted following the recent death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)
A woman with 'BLM' written on her cheek poses for a picture during a demonstration on May 31, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia.  (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 2: A demonstrator hugs a member of the National Guard during a march in response to George Floyd's death on June 2, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. Floyd died while in Minneapolis police custody on May 25. Officer Derek Chauvin and three other policemen involved in the incident have been fired from the force. Chauvin has since been arrested and charged with third degree murder. Huge peaceful protests, many marred by vandalism and police violence, are taking place throughout the United States. (Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images)
A demonstrator hugs a member of the National Guard during a march in response to George Floyd's death on June 2, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. Floyd died while in Minneapolis police custody on May 25.  (Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 03: Demonstrators march down Pennsylvania Avenue near the Trump International Hotel during a protest against police brutality and the death of George Floyd, on June 3, 2020 in Washington, DC. Protests in cities throughout the country have been been held after the death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
Demonstrators march down Pennsylvania Avenue near the Trump International Hotel during a protest against police brutality and the death of George Floyd, on June 3, 2020 in Washington, DC.  (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
A protester wears a shirt with the words 'I cant Breathe' on June 06, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. Events across Australia have been organised in solidarity with protests in the United States following the killing of an unarmed black man George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota and to rally against aboriginal deaths in custody in Australia. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)
A protester wears a shirt with the words 'I cant Breathe' on June 06, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia.  (Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)
SEATTLE, WA - JUNE 08: A demonstrator raises their fist as a fire burns in the street after clashes with law enforcement near the Seattle Police Departments East Precinct shortly after midnight on June 8, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. Earlier in the evening, a suspect drove into the crowd of protesters and shot one person, which happened after a day of peaceful protests across the city. Later, police and protesters clashed violently during ongoing Black Lives Matter demonstrations following the death of George Floyd. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images)
A demonstrator raises their fist as a fire burns in the street after clashes with law enforcement near the Seattle Police Departments East Precinct shortly after midnight on June 8, 2020 in Seattle, Washington.  (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images)
BARCELONA, SPAIN - JUNE 04: Demonstrators gather to mourn the death of George Floyd during a vigil at Catalunya Square on June 04, 2020 in Barcelona, Spain.The death of an African-American man, George Floyd, while in the custody of Minneapolis police has sparked protests across the United States, as well as demonstrations of solidarity in many countries around the world. (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images)
Demonstrators gather to mourn the death of George Floyd during a vigil at Catalunya Square on June 04, 2020 in Barcelona, Spain.(Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 23: U.S. President Donald Trump catches a baseball thrown by former New York Yankees Hall of Fame pitcher Mariano Rivera on the South Lawn of the White House on July 23, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Trump and Rivera met with youth baseball players to celebrate Opening Day of Major League Baseball. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
US President Donald Trump catches a baseball thrown by former New York Yankees Hall of Fame pitcher Mariano Rivera on the South Lawn of the White House on July 23, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
In this handout image provided by NASA, NASA astronauts Robert Behnken (L) and Douglas Hurley are seen inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule spacecraft which landed in the Gulf of Mexico after completing the Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station on August 2, 2020 off the coast of Pensacola, Florida. The Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceXs crew transportation system. Behnken and Hurley launched at 3:22 p.m. EDT on Saturday, May 30, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. (Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images)
In this handout image provided by NASA, NASA astronauts Robert Behnken (L) and Douglas Hurley are seen inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule spacecraft which landed in the Gulf of Mexico after completing the Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station on August 2, 2020 off the coast of Pensacola, Florida.  (Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images)

A warm thank you to Kim McCarthy from Gallo Images for her generous help in the production of this image selection. DM/ ML

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