World Sleep Day: How we sleep

From a protester sleeping on a road in Myanmar to sleeping pods in Germany, a compilation of how we sleep as a pandemic tore through the world

Mar 19, 2021, 16:56 IST2 min

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A man takes a nap next to an empty security line at Denver International Airport on March 13, 2021, in Denver, Colorado. More than 1,800 flights into and out of Denver have been canceled...

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Activists lie in sleeping bags as protesters from Palestine Action and Extinction Rebellion occupy the Elbit-Ferranti factory, where they say weapons are being made, in Waterhead, Oldham...

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A man sleeps as police block a road where protesters used to gather against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, February 19, 2021.&nbsp

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National Guard members sleep, before Democrats begin debating one article of impeachment against U.S. President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, U.S., January 13, 2021.&n...

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Students of Yevdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry have a rest at a temporary hospital for patients with suspected coronavirus infection at Pavilion No 75 at the VD...

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A vendor sleeping within sacks of onions in Koley market, one of the most crowded vegetable markets of Kolkata on February 24, 2021

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A man wearing a face mask sleeps at a park near a banner reading "The use of face masks is mandatory in our municipality", amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Tlacolula ...

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A person sleeps next to empty oxygen tanks to save a spot in the queue, as the supplier refills a tank per person and attends only up to 60 people a day, during the outbreak of the coron...

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A person sleeps on a chair while taking shelter at Gallery Furniture store which opened its door and transformed into a warming station after winter weather caused electricity blackouts ...

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A mobile shelter developed by the so-called &ldquoUlmer Nest&rdquo, an architecture project that offers mobile sleep pods as a shelter for homeless people, is pictured in Ulm, southern G...

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Lyoo Chan-hee, 10, his younger sister Lyoo Chae-hee, 7, and Lyoo Ye-hee, 3, get ready to go to sleep at their home on Nokdo island in Boryeong, South Korea, March 1, 2021. "Seoul is so c...

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