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Sanitation Workers Are Braving the Outdoors to Disinfect the Pyramids and Other Cultural Landmarks—See Surreal Pictures Here

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Apr 10, 2020
artnet

From the Tower of Pisa in Italy to the Pyramids of Giza in
Egypt, cultural landmarks and other public spaces that see
thousands of visitors each year are now entirely vacant—except for
the presence of sanitation workers who are braving dangerous
conditions to disinfect them as the war against the novel
coronavirus continues.

While non-essential workers are still housebound, pictures from
around the world show surreal scenes of Tyvek suit-wearing workers
spraying down eerily empty spaces like the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul
and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

See the strange scenes—which, god willing, we are unlikely to
witness again in our lifetime—below.

Sanitization of Piazza Duomo in Milan.
(Photo by: Claudia Greco/AGF/Universal Images Group via Getty
Images)

A worker sanitizes the Piazza del Duomo
in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Pier Marco Tacca/Getty Images)

Sanitizing near the Tower of Pisa in Pisa, Italy. (Photo by Laura Lezza/Getty Images)

Sanitizing near the Tower of Pisa in
Pisa, Italy. (Photo by Laura Lezza/Getty Images)

Sanitizing outside the Civil Hospital in
Venice, Italy. (Photo by Simone Padovani/Awakening/Getty
Images)

A security guard at the closed
Stonehenge in Amesbury, United Kingdom. (Photo by Finnbarr
Webster/Getty Images)

Egyptian municipality workers disinfect
the Giza pyramids necropolis outside Cairo. (Photo by Khaled
DESOUKI / AFP)

Egyptian municipality workers disinfect
the Giza pyramids necropolis outside Cairo. (Photo by Khaled
DESOUKI / AFP)

A worker disinfects the atrium of the
Egyptian Museum in Cairo’s landmark Tahrir Square. (Photo by KHALED
DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images)

A worker disinfects the gallery of the
ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun at the Egyptian Museum in
Cairo. (Photo by KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images)

A worker disinfects the glass panels
outside sarcophagi on display in a hall at the Egyptian Museum in
Cairo’s landmark Tahrir Square. (Photo by KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via
Getty Images)

Health officials carry out disinfecting
works at Hagia Sophia Museum in Istanbul, Turkey. (Photo by Mehmet
Eser/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Health officials carry out disinfecting
works at Hagia Sophia Museum in Istanbul, Turkey. (Photo by Mehmet
Eser/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Mecca, Saudi Arabia, where International
umrah visits have been halted since March 2nd and visits for Masjid
al-Nabawi and Kaaba at the Masjid al-Haram have been suspended
since March 20th. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty
Images)

A Varna municipality worker, wearing a
protective suit, sprays a liquid to disinfect Church St. Petka in
Varna, Bulgaria. (Photo by Hristo Rusev/NurPhoto via Getty
Images)

A worker sprays disinfectant in St.
Petka Church in Varna, Bulgaria. (Photo by Hristo Rusev/NurPhoto
via Getty Images)

Istanbul Fatih Municipality disinfected
the surroundings of Sultanahmet Square and the Hagia Sophia. (Photo
by Onur Dogman/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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