APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Britain Then and Now Photo Gallery

Apr 5, 2020

A combo of images shows pedestrians strolling over the Millennium bridge in London on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016 and an empty view from the same angle taken on Wednesday, April 1, 2020. When Associated Press photographer Frank Augstein moved to London in 2015, what struck him most was the crowds. In years of covering political dramas, moments of celebration and tragedy and major sporting events, Augstein's photographs have captured the city's ceaseless movement: Pedestrians swarming over the Millennium footbridge spanning the River Thames. Travelers from the U.K. and continental Europe thronging St. Pancras railway station. Commuters following London transit etiquette by carefully ignoring one another on a crowded Tube train, or waiting patiently in a snaking bus queue. Augstein revisited those sites in recent days after Britain — like other countries around the world — went into effective lockdown to stem the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

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