The global pandemic: in pictures

Quarantine and lockdown have left many once-bustling centres and tourist attractions to police and pigeons, as life continues behind closed doors across the globe. Take a brief pictorial tour of a changed world.

1/17Eiffel Tower, Paris. Photo: AP/Christophe Ena

2/17Venice. Photo: supplied

3/17The Piazza della Signoria, Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. EPA photo

4/17Colosseum, Rome. AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino

5/17St Antuan Church, Istanbul, Turkey. Photo: Akin Celiktas/Depo Photos/ABACAPRESS.COM.

6/17Pisa, Italy. Photo: EPA/Fabio Muzzi

7/17Dam Square, Amsterdam. Photo: EPA/Remko de Waal

8/17Naples, Italy. Photo: supplied

9/17Times Square, New York. Photo: Anthony Behar/Sipa USA

10/17New York. Photo: supplied

11/17A view of an almost empty Brooklyn Bridge in New York. Photo: EPA/Alba Vigaray

12/17New York. Photo: supplied

13/17The metro in Istanbul, Turkey. Photo: Mustafa Alkac/Depo Photos/ABACAPRESS.COM.

14/17New York. Photo: supplied

15/17Turin, Italy. Photo: Nicolò Campo/Sipa USA

16/17Sanur, Bali. Photo: AP /Firdia Lisnawati

17/17Tehran, Iran. Photo: AP/Mohammad Ghadamali