How the pandemic changed the way we live, work and play

Stuttgart Ballet company dancers take part in a conceptual performance at the John Cranko School in Stuttgart, Germany, February 2021.  REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski

Teddy bears sit at tables to maintain social distancing measures at Jaso Bakery restaurant in Mexico City, July 2020. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido  

Goldfish bowl-like acrylic screens installed as part of new social distancing measures at Jazz Lounge Encounter, a night club for seeking encounters, in Tokyo's Ginza district, Japan, August 2020.  REUTERS/Issei Kato

Audience members watch the Moonlight Mobile Theater's dance performance through peepholes at a shopping mall in Nagoya, Japan, February 2021.  Moonlight Mobile Theater/Ryosuke Sato

People wearing protective face masks inside a movie theater during the gradual reopening of commercial activities in Mexico City, August 2020. REUTERS/Henry Romero

Madame Tussauds's wax figure of Audrey Hepburn sits at an empty table to comply with social distancing requirements in a dining room at Peter Luger Steak House in Brooklyn, New York, February 2021.  REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Fourth and Fifth grade music teacher Virgilio Joven plays the violin while teaching a virtual music class at the Mount Vernon Community School in Alexandria, Virginia, March 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

Students sit behind old ballot boxes repurposed into partitions as they attend class in Pathum Thani province, Thailand, July 2020. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha  

People sit inside their cars and watch an open-air performance in Jerusalem August 2020. REUTERS/Ilan Rosenberg

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An Iranian man and his daughter get disinfected before they enter the kindergarten, in Tehran, Iran, October 2020. Majid Asgaripour/WANA

Members exercise at Bally Sport Center, after a five-month lockdown, in Antiguo Cuscatlan, El Salvador, September 2020. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

Dana Baer and her son Jacob Baer wish Avery Slutsky a happy sixth birthday from their car during a drive-by birthday celebration in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, March 2020. REUTERS/Emily Elconin

People participate in an outdoor yoga class in Toronto, Canada, June 2020.  REUTERS/Carlos Osorio

People pray as screens show devotees gathering via Zoom to commemorate Makha Bucha Day at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya temple, in Pathum Thani province, Thailand, February 2021. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

A staff member marks seats for social distancing at a movie theatre in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 2020. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana

A woman poses under a Plex'Eat prototype plexiglass bubble by designer Christophe Gernigon, which surrounds diners to protect them from the coronavirus near Paris, France, May 2020.  REUTERS/Benoit Tessier    

A man sings inside a makeshift 'shower stall' set up in order to protect patrons at Tracie's Place Restaurant and Karaoke in Hamilton, Canada, October 2020.  REUTERS/Carlos Osorio

A woman sits outside Cafe Du Soleil under bubble tents in Manhattan, New York, September 2020. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon

Keith Huerta, 30, cuts the hair of Nick Parr, 25, on the street outside Active Barbers in Santa Monica, California, September 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

People stand on signs to respect social distancing on a platform for the tramway in Nice, France, May 2020.  REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

People sit in outlined sections while viewing a screening as part of Movie Nights with Tribeca Film Festival at the Backyard at Hudson Yards in Manhattan, New York, September 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

Personal trainer Flo Dowler leads the residents of Napier Avenue in a fitness class in Fulham, West London, Britain, May 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Coombs

Sunbathers lie in circles marked on the grass at Mission Dolores Park in San Francisco, California, May 2020.  REUTERS/Drone Base

Students wearing protective masks talk while practicing social distancing at the courtyard of a secondary school during its reopening in Brussels, Belgium, May 2020. REUTERS/Yves Herman  

Hashim, an essential worker in the healthcare industry, greets his daughter through a closed door as he maintains social distance from his family as he works amid the coronavirus outbreak in New Rochelle, New York, April 2020. REUTERS/Joy Malone

People practice social distancing inside an elevator prior to arriving to their workplaces at World Trade Center, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 2020. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte

Archbishop Francois Touvet waves to attendees after France's first ever drive-in mass in Chalons-en-Champagne, after the country began a gradual end to lockdown, near Reims, France, May 2020. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

Yellow stripe is painted in the middle of a pedestrian street to help people comply with social distance guidelines in Aalborg, Denmark, May 2020. Henning Bagger/Ritzau Scanpix/via REUTERS

A fan watching a drive-in viewing of the Los Angeles Dodgers playing the Tampa Bay Rays during game 1 of the 2020 World Series in the parking lot of Dodgers Stadium, in Los Angeles, California, October 2020. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

People wear protective face shields and masks at a bank preparing to reopen in Bangkok, Thailand, May 2020. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

Minions toys sit on cinema chairs to maintain social distancing at a MK2 cinema in Paris, France, June 2020.  REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

Customers wait outside on social distancing markings at a prototype location of fast food giant McDonald's in Arnhem, Netherlands, May 2020. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw

People watch an outdoor movie screening in Singapore, January 2021. REUTERS/Edgar Su

Students and teachers wear protective face masks while keeping social distance as schools reopen in Hanau, Germany, August 2020.   REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

People sit inside protection booths at the Sushi das Artes restaurant in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2020. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

A bank teller wearing a protective face mask stands at a counter where a plastic curtain is installed at the Higashinakano branch of MUFG Bank in Tokyo, April 2020. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

Children maintain social distance during an outdoor movie night at a home in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, April 2020.  REUTERS/Arin Yoon

Mannequins placed between tables to help customers with social distancing in a reopened bar in Istanbul, Turkey, June 2020. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

People have lunch at the Penguin Eat Shabu hotpot restaurant that reopened with the implementation of a plastic barrier and social distancing measures after the easing of restrictions in Bangkok, Thailand, May 2020. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

Tracy Sandridge and Julie Brown of Baltimore pose with inner tubes on wheels dubbed "bumper tables" designed to ensure social distancing when Fish Tales Bar & Grill reopens in Ocean City, Maryland, May 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

An Iranian couple watches a movie in a drive-in cinema at the Milad Tower parking space in Tehran, Iran, May 2020. WANA/Ali Khara via REUTERS

Children take part in a lesson after schools reopened for grades 1-3 in Warsaw, Poland, May 2020. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

Nicky Clough looks through the window at her mother Pam Harrison opening a present on Christmas Day at Alexander House Care Home in Wimbledon, London, December 2020. REUTERS/Hannah McKay