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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 IST1 min
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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 VDNKh Exhibition Centre.
Image by Sergei KarpukhinTASS via Getty Images
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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
Image by Dipayan Bose/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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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 de Matamoros, Oaxaca state, Mexico January 30, 2021.
Image by Jorge Luis Plata / Reuters
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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 coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Callao, Peru February 4, 2021. Picture taken February 4, 2021.
Image by Sebastian Castaneda / Reuters
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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 in Houston, Texas, U.S. February 17, 2021.
Image by Go Nakamura / Reuters
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A mobile shelter developed by the so-called “Ulmer Nest”, an architecture project that offers mobile sleep pods as a shelter for homeless people, is pictured in Ulm, southern Germany, February 10, 2021.
Image by Ralph Brock / Reuters
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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 crowded, noisy and the air is not good," said Chan-hee. "Nokdo has no traffic, isn"t noisy and the air is clean. I can play outside more actively, so I like it here."
Image by Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters

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