In Pictures: Holidays at the hospital amid COVID-19

Healthcare workers and patients find moments of festive joy during a pandemic Christmas

Published: December 24, 2020 11:06 Reuters and Compiled by Christian Borbon, Senior Web Editor

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A holiday greeting hangs as a healthcare worker checks on a patient inside the COVID-19 unit at Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Image Credit: Reuters

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A medical worker in a protective suit works inside an intensive care unit for coronavirus patients, at the San Filippo Neri hospital, ahead of Christmas, in Rome, Italy. Image Credit: Reuters

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A medical worker in a protective suit works inside an intensive care unit for coronavirus patients, at the San Filippo Neri hospital, ahead of Christmas, in Rome, Italy. Image Credit: Reuters

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A hospitalized child meets his best friend through plastic at the Department of paediatric rehabilitation and developmental disabilities of IRCCS at the San Raffaele hospital, for children who wished for Christmas to see and hug their friends and family in Rome, Italy. Image Credit: Reuters

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Members of the Slovenian Cave Rescue Association dressed as Santa Clauses rappel down the glass facade of a paediatric hospital in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Image Credit: Reuters

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Members of the association Child Guardian Angels give presents to children at the German Heart Centre in Berlin, Germany. Image Credit: Reuters

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Orthodox Archimandrite Vasilii gives blessing to medical personnel at a ward with patients suffering from COVID-19 at Saint Anna hospital, in Sofia, Bulgaria. About 30 Orthodox priests, who have themselves recovered from coronavirus infection, visit patients in hospitals with COVID-19 wards in Sofia to offer spiritual support for early recovery on the eve of Christmas. Image Credit: Reuters

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Ionut Ivan, a 40-year-old nurse, dressed in red PPE, a red hat and a makeshift cotton beard, poses for a picture next to Brindusa Gheorghiu, a patient suffering from COVID-19, in the ICU of the Marius Nasta Pneumology Institute, in Bucharest, Romania. Image Credit: Reuters

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Nataya Gresham-Trotter adds lights to a Christmas tree dressed like a healthcare worker in the intensive care unit at Roseland Community Hospital on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. Image Credit: Reuters

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A hospitalized child touches the hand of her mother through a plastic sheet at the Department of paediatric rehabilitation and developmental disabilities of IRCCS at the San Raffaele hospital in Rome, Italy. Image Credit: Reuters

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A medical worker in a protective suit works inside an intensive care unit for coronavirus patients, at the San Filippo Neri hospital, ahead of Christmas, in Rome, Italy. Image Credit: Reuters

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A hospitalized child holds his father's hand through plastic at the Department of paediatric rehabilitation and developmental disabilities of IRCCS at the San Raffaele hospital in Rome, Italy. Image Credit: Reuters

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Members of the association Child Guardian Angels give presents to children at the German Heart Centre in Berlin, Germany. Image Credit: Reuters

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First lady Melania Trump reads a Christmas book to children who are patients at Children's National Hospital, in Washington. Due to pandemic concerns there were two children in the room and the reading was broadcast to children in the rest of the hospital. Image Credit: Reuters

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A medical worker is seen at a desk decorated with Christmas decorations in the ICU at the university hospital in Aachen, Germany. Image Credit: Reuters

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