A blurry 2020: Our year of bubble living - behind plastic

Lily Hendrickx, 83, a resident at Belgian nursing home "Le Jardin de Picardie" enjoys hugs and cuddles with Marie-Christine Desoer, the director of the residence, through a wall made with plastic sheets in Peruwelz, Belgium.

A staff member wearing a face shield talks to a bank teller at a counter where a plastic curtain is installed in a barnch of MUFG Bank in Tokyo, Japan.

Raindrops are seen on outdoor protective plastic sheeting surrounding a woman on her phone at a cafe dining area in Galway, Ireland

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.

A woman sits outside Cafe Du Soleil under bubble tents in Manhattan, New York.

A person dressed as a Santa Claus meets with children while sitting in a "Santa Claus bubble" in Aalborg, Denmark.

People participate in an outdoor yoga class in a dome to facilitate social distancing, in Toronto, Canada.

A volunteer delivers food rations at a so-called 'Olla comun', a communal kitchen set up to provide hot food for those with dwindling or lost incomes in Valparaiso, Chile.

Members exercise at Bally Sport Center, after a five-month lockdown, in Antiguo Cuscatlan, El Salvador.

People wear protective face shields and masks at a bank preparing to reopen in Bangkok, Thailand.

People eat inside private dining pods at a restaurant in London.

A resident kisses a relative through a plastic sheet installed in a special 'hug room' at a care home in Castelfranco Veneto, Italy.

Kindergarten students from the Wichuthit school eat their lunch during a rehearsal social distancing ahead of nationwide schools reopening in Bangkok, Thailand.

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.

People are seen at the Atjeh Connection restaurant with separations on the table in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Teacher Maura Silva, who works for public school Escola Municipal Frei Vicente de Salvador and who created a "hug kit" using plastic covers, embraces her student Yuri Araujo Silva at Yuri's home in the 77 Padre Miguel slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Newborn baby Phuc An, wearing a protective face shield, before leaving home for a vaccination in Hanoi, Vietnam.