A lone determine in an eerie London lockdown

In September 2020, rising Covid-19 instances plunged London into one other lockdown. One photographer roamed the town’s monetary district amid an eerie vacancy.

There had been hope that Covid-19 would have ebbed away within the northern hemisphere by the top of summer season in 2020. Instead, a brand new wave of the illness appeared in earnest in direction of the top of August. In little greater than a month, it will spark new lockdowns within the UK – and once more plunge once-busy metropolis centres into an eerie vacancy.

Some blame was directed at a authorities programme known as “Eat Out to Help Out”, which urged individuals to dine on subsidised meals at native pubs and eating places. Held from 3-31 August 2020, the scheme was enormously in style as customer numbers within the venues participating soared by greater than 50% in comparison with the earlier August, earlier than the pandemic.

But with the diners got here Sars-CoV2, the virus that causes Covid-19. The variety of confirmed Covid-19 infections, which had been dropping, began to rise once more. Cases amongst college students additionally started to rise because the nation’s universities opened for the brand new educational yr.

By 21 September 2020, the federal government’s scientific advisor, Patrick Vallance, warned that there might be 50,000 new instances a day within the UK if the federal government did not act quickly. Only a day later, the UK’s prime minister Boris Johnson announced new restrictions in an try to ease the outbreak.