A nurse holds an 11-day-old baby boy infected with Covid-19 at the intensive care unit of the Dr Feriha Oz emergency hospital in Istanbul. The hospital is a new infirmary offering some of the most advanced intensive care treatment in the country. When the pandemic first struck, Turkey was credited for quickly bringing infection rates under control. It is now experiencing an explosion in Covid cases that is putting a serious strain on its health system

1. 20 photographs of the week
The explosion in Nashville, the enduring impact of Covid 19 and the Kilauea volcano reactivates: the
most striking images from around the world
Jim Powell
Main image: People watch an eruption from Kilauea volcano on the Big Island, Hawaii.
Sat 26 Dec 2020 11.46 GMT
Istanbul, Turkey
A nurse holds an 11-day-old baby boy infected with Covid-19 at the intensive care unit of the Dr Feriha Oz
emergency hospital in Istanbul. The hospital is a new infirmary offering some of the most advanced
intensive care treatment in the country. When the pandemic first struck, Turkey was credited for quickly
bringing infection rates under control. It is now experiencing an explosion in Covid cases that is putting a
serious strain on its health system
Photograph: Emrah Gürel/AP
Nashville, Tennessee

2. Emergency personnel work in downtown Nashville after a large explosion destroyed several buildings on
Christmas morning in what local police said was an ‘intentional act’
Photograph: Mark Humphrey/AP
Basra, Iraq
A demonstrator moves burning tyres during anti-government protests in Basra
Photograph: Essam al-Sudani/Reuters

3. White Plains, New York
Karin Casciano, a community paramedic, speaks to a patient during a home visit. The patient said the
Christmas stockings were for his adult children, although he would not see them this Christmas because of
the pandemic
Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images

4. Ramsgate, England
Lorries are parked on the runway at Manston airport as part of Operation Brock to stack lorries waiting to
cross the Channel
Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images