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Coronavirus: graffiti to raise awareness

2020-04-05T15:06:35.768Z


IN PICTURES - In Glasgow, Dakar and Rio de Janeiro, graffiti artists share their perception of the pandemic in the hope of raising public awareness.


The spread of the Covid-19 pandemic affects 190 countries and territories. All over the world, to make people feel more concerned, artists have reminded them of the right behaviors to adopt. Others paid tribute to the caregivers on the front line in the fight against the coronavirus, and to the essential work of the cashiers who work fear in the stomach.

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A man walks past graffiti inspired by the coronavirus in Glasgow, as life goes on in Britain and containment is not widespread. ANDY BUCHANAN / AFP

Graffiti depicts the logo of the British National Health Service (NHS) and a rainbow, in a burst of love and thanks to NHS staff and key workers involved in the treatment of coronavirus patients, on doors of a closed pub in Pontefract, in the north of England. OLI SCARFF / AFP

A graffiti by artist Bandit titled Our Nurses, Our Saints in New Orleans, Louisiana. Chris Graythen / AFP

A pedestrian wearing a mask walks past awareness graffiti in Bombay, India. A slogan to promote good respiratory and hand hygiene indicates in English "Catch It, Bin It, Kill It", "Catch it, throw it, kill it" in French. INDRANIL MUKHERJEE / AFP

Syrian artist Aziz al-Asmar and children make the victory sign next to a graffiti representing a caricature of the coronavirus, drawn on the wall of a building in Binnish in the province of Idlib in Syria. Arabic text says "The corona you hate makes you sick" and "Take it seriously" in English. MUHAMMAD HAJ KADOUR / AFP

Artist David “SID” Perez paints graffiti of a cashier to pay tribute to essential workers in Gland, Switzerland. DENIS BALIBOUSE / REUTERS

The graffiti artist Rafamon projects his work with the message “Vai Passar” (“it will pass”) on a building near his house in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. CARL DE SOUZA / AFP

A cyclist walks past graffiti by anonymous street artist Lacuna of a woman wearing a mask next to a stylized SARS-CoV-2 virus in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district. JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP

A municipal employee cleans a street in front of graffiti of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro clumsily adjusting his protective mask, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. SERGIO MORAES / REUTERS

Source: lefigaro

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