Through The Lens 2020: The Straits Times Photo Exhibition

The Straits Times Photo Exhibition tells the story of a pandemic year in Singapore through images of key moments in the country's ongoing fight against Covid-19.

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Jan 11, 2021, 04:00 AM

Employees from a cleaning company taking a break after disinfecting a site on Feb 12, 2020. ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM

People walking across the Causeway from Malaysia towards Woodlands Checkpoint shortly before 10pm on March 17, 2020. Malaysians were barred from travelling abroad from March 18 to 31. Singapore companies affected by the travel restrictions would get help to house their Malaysian workers. ST PHOTO: CHONG JUN LIANG

Social distancing in practice at the water fountain at Takashimaya, Ngee Ann City, on March 26, 2020. ST PHOTO: ONG WEE JIN

Cabby Nelson Lim, 68, using his vehicle as a dining table at a carpark in Haig Road on the second day of circuit breaker measures on April 8, 2020. ST PHOTO: JASON QUAH

With most workplaces, schools and shops shut, foot traffic was light at the usually crowded courtyard at Toa Payoh Mall in the early afternoon of April 27, 2020. Singapore was approaching the end of the first phase of its circuit breaker period, which began on April 7 and was due to end on May 4, but the Government announced that the measures to stem the spread of the coronavirus would be tightened and extended by another four weeks until June 1. ST PHOTO: GAVIN FOO

Dr Lui To Hang, a medical officer at Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, communicating with a member of the nursing staff after doing an arterial blood gas test on a Covid-19 patient in the intensive care unit's negative pressure room on April 28, 2020. ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM

Muslim migrant workers performing Maghrib prayers at the Westlite Toh Guan Dormitory, after breaking fast on May 1, 2020. Workers at all the dorms had not been allowed to leave their premises since April 21 as part of tighter circuit breaker measures. ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG

Ms Janet Tiou, 68, of the 81 Sheng Yu stall at Tekka Market receiving some tips on selling her seafood on a live stream from Mr Max Kee, 37, of Lian Huat Seafood on May 5, 2020 – the first day of a new initiative to take the wet market shopping experience online. ST PHOTO: JASON QUAH

A long queue forming outside Geylang Serai Market on May 22, 2020, as shoppers wait to enter the popular wet market ahead of Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebrations. ST PHOTO: JASON QUAH

A basketball court at Kaki Bukit Recreation Centre partly taken over by weeds during the circuit breaker on May 29, 2020, with grass-cutting and weed removal services stopped in many places cross the island. ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI

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