A woman receives a shot of China’s Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine during a mass vaccination for people above the age of 60 at Adam Malik Hospital in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Monday, March 8, 2021. The world’s fourth most populous country plans to vaccinate two-thirds of its population of about 270 million people, or just over 180 million people in a campaign that is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2022.
Lateral Flow Tests are processed as children arrive at Outwood Academy in Woodlands, Doncaster, England, Monday March 8, 2021. British children are returning to school on Monday after a two-month closure, part of what Prime Minister Boris Johnson said was a plan to get the country to “start moving closer to a sense of normality.”
Healthcare workers receive a patient suspected of having COVID-19 at the public HRAN Hospital in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, March 8, 2021.
FILE – In this May 7, 2020, file photo, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak speaks during a news conference in Carson City, Nev. One year into the pandemic, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak is still attempting to strike the right balance between keeping the state’s tourism industry afloat while also containing the virus. In an interview with the Associated Press, Sisolak said he plans to use Nevada’s safety protocols as a selling point to bring tourists, conventions, and trade shows back to Las Vegas.
A Palestinian that works in Israel receives a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the Tarkumiya crossing between the West Bank and Israel, Monday, March 8, 2021. After delays, Israel started vaccinating Palestinians who work inside the country and its West Bank settlements on Monday, more than two months after launching an immunization blitz of its own population.
A health worker prepares a dose of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, March 8, 2021. Vietnam has started the vaccination campaign with a hope to inoculate half of the population of 96 millions against COVID-19 by the end of the year.
Police officers wearing masks to curb the spread of coronavirus outbreak stand guard during a rally celebrating the International Women’s Day in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, March 8, 2021.
Bianca Ahlemeier (32), a childminder in home daycare with five children, is vaccinated with AstraZeneca’s vaccine by a doctor at the vaccination centre in Koelnmesse, Cologne, Germany, Monday, March 8, 2021. From today on nursery school teachers, child minders, some teachers and police officers, as well as people in workshops for disabled people, will be vaccinated with AstraZeneca’s preparation.
A Palestinian laborer who works in Israel receives his first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a coronavirus vaccination center set up at the Gilboa checkpoint crossing between Israel and the West Bank city of Jenin, Monday, March. 8, 2021 Monday, March 8, 2021.
A health care worker prepares a first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to administer to a Palestinian laborer who works in Israel at a coronavirus vaccination center set up at the Gilboa checkpoint crossing between Israel and the West Bank city of Jenin, Monday, March. 8, 2021.
A Palestinian laborer who works in Israel receives his first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a coronavirus vaccination center set up at the Gilboa checkpoint crossing between Israel and the West Bank city of Jenin, Monday, March 8, 2021.
A Palestinian laborer who works in Israel receives his first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a coronavirus vaccination center set up at the Meitar checkpoint crossing between Israel and the West Bank, south of the West Bank town of Hebron, Monday, March. 8, 2021.
Elderly Indians on wheel chairs wait in a queue to receive COVID-19 vaccine in Mumbai, India, Monday, March 8, 2021.
Pupils arrive at Outwood Academy in Woodlands, Doncaster, England, Monday March 8, 2021. British children are returning to school on Monday after a two-month closure, part of what Prime Minister Boris Johnson said was a plan to get the country to “start moving closer to a sense of normality.”
People wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus walk on a street lined with bars and restaurants in Tokyo, Monday, March 8, 2021. Japan’s government extended a state of emergency in the Tokyo region through March 21 because medical systems are still strained by COVID-19 patients.
Florence Mudzingwa a digital marketer and life coach works from her wheelchair at her family home in Harare, in this Saturday, March 6, 2021 photo. Mudzingwa through her organisation Hope Resurrect Trust, equips girls with disability with skills, equipment and confidence to make their way in the world, despite their gender and disabilities. From driving trucks and fixing cars to encouraging girls living with disability to find their places in society, women in Zimbabwe are refusing to be defined by their gender or circumstances, even as the pandemic hits them hardest hardest and imposes extra burdens.
Children line up to enter a Primary Academy in Shipdham, England, Monday March 8, 2021. British children are returning to school on Monday after a two-month closure, part of what Prime Minister Boris Johnson said was a plan to get the country to “start moving closer to a sense of normality.”
South Korean police officers wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus, stand at the venue for a rally in downtown Seoul, South Korea, Monday, March 8, 2021.
Mary Beth Baca, a registered nurse of Douglas, Mass., and other nurses gather outside Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., as a strike begins Monday, March 8, 2021. Baca has been a nurse at Saint Vincent Hospital for 38 years. This is her second time on strike.
Marcio Moraes prays outside the window of an improvised ICU where his 25-year-old brother was hospitalized two days prior for COVID-19 at the public HRAN Hospital in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, March 8, 2021.
This photo provided by Chorus Photography, Skippack Pharmacy owner and pharmacist Dr. Mayank Amin administers vaccine to Aubrie Cusumano while son, Luca looks on Feb. 11, 2021, in Skippack, Pa. In communities across the country, local pharmacy owners are among the people administering COVID-19 vaccinations. Being a vaccine provider requires a big investment of time and paperwork, and for some, finding a location for a mass vaccination clinic.
This photo provided by Chorus Media Group, Skippack Pharmacy owner & Pharmacist Dr. Mayank Amin, dressed in his trademark superhero costume, arrives in the middle of a snowstorm with vials of COVID-19 vaccine for their first vaccination clinic on Feb. 7, 2021, in Skippack, Pa. In communities across the country, local pharmacy owners are among the people administering COVID-19 vaccinations. Being a vaccine provider requires a big investment of time and paperwork, and for some, finding a location for a mass vaccination clinic.
Linsey Johnson, right, a dean at Meyer Levin Middle School, greets a student, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, in New York. In-school learning resumed for middle school students in New York City for the first time since the fall of 2020.
Greg Brennan, a teacher and basketball coach at Southside High School, is vaccinated by nurse Abigail Fromm, at a clinic operated by Mount Sinai South Nassau, Friday, March 5, 2021 in Rockville Centre, N.Y. Brennan received the first of two Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.
FILE – This file photo released July. 19, 2020 on the official Facebook page of Syrian Presidency, shows Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, and his wife Asma voting at a polling station in the parliamentary elections, in Damascus, Syria. The office of Syrian President Bashar Assad said Monday, March 8, 2021 that Assad and his wife have tested positive for the coronavirus and are both doing well. In a statement, Assad’s office said the first couple did PCR tests after they felt minor symptoms consistent with the COVID-19 illness.
A health worker shows the media how she prepares a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine to be administered to a patient at a vaccination center set up in front of Rome’s Termini central station, Monday, March 8, 2021.
A police car patrol Naples’ waterfront, Italy, Monday, March 8, 2021 following restriction measures to curb the spread of COVID-19. Italy surpassed 100,000 dead in the pandemic, a year after it became the first Western country to go on lockdown in a bid to stop the spread of COVID-19. The Health Ministry on Monday said 318 people had died in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 100,103.
An Air Force member takes a selfie while getting her shot of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 at a military base in Lima, Peru, Monday, March 8, 2021.
A medical team checks a COVID-19 patient at the emergency ward in the Severo Ochoa Hospital in Leganes, outskirts of Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. Vaccination in Spain is still advancing at a slow pace, with 1.4 million people fully vaccinated and 3.3 additional awaiting their second dose as of March 8 according to Spain’s Health Ministry data.
HARTFORD, Conn. — The first Connecticut resident to be diagnosed with COVID-19 says he is still coping with health problems one year later, but the experience has brought a new optimism to his life.
Chris Tillett, a former Wilton, Connecticut, resident, tested positive for COVID-19 on March 8, 2020, and spent three weeks at Danbury Hospital, including 10 days in a coma and on a ventilator. Doctors used experimental treatments, including anti-malaria and anti-HIV drugs, in efforts to save his life.
Tillett, who was 45 years old at the time, a husband and father of 4-month-old twin boys, got sick after returning from a professional conference in California.
“This has been a tough year,” Tillett, who now lives in Virginia, told WVIT-TV. “I’m enjoying little aspects of life. Even when things go bad, I just choose to laugh at it now instead of letting it get me angry and upset, and like what is that gonna do for me, right? So I’ve just found, yes, definitely a new lease on life.”
Tillett told Connecticut Public Radio he continues to experience muscle pain, stiffness and swelling in his legs. He also had to begin taking blood pressure medication, and may have to for the rest of his life. He said red spots still cover his feet, a common lingering symptom of the virus.
Exactly one year after Tillett tested positive, more than 285,000 Connecticut residents have contracted the virus and more than 7,700 have died.
