Countries and their borders still tend to disappear under the weight of Covid-19 after more than a year of pandemic, this is what Jordanian designer Osama Hajjaj suggests through his caricature of the planet, peeled like an orange, under which we discover the coronavirus.
On March 11, 2020, the WHO declared that the world was facing a "pandemic", after warning at the end of January of the danger of the virus, which appeared in Wuhan (China) in November 2019.
Since then, everyone's lives have changed: confinements, barrier gestures, masks, social distancing, reduced travel, teleworking, political, economic and social chaos, widening inequalities ... and 2.6 million victims worldwide (including a half -million in the United States, the most affected country).
If encouraging signs have multiplied in recent months with the arrival of vaccines to the four corners of the planet and the numerous launches of vaccination campaigns, the pandemic remains and worried.
It also inspires cartoonists across the Globe, such as Osama Hajjaj, Jordanian cartoonist, who contributes to the Jordanian daily Alquds.
He is well known in his country as well as in the whole Arab world.
He is also a member of the Cartooning for Peace collective.
Cartooning for Peace is an international network of cartoonists committed to promoting, through the universality of press cartoons, freedom of expression, human rights and mutual respect between populations of different cultures or beliefs.
Cartooning for Peace is an international network of cartoonists committed to promoting, through the universality of press cartoons, freedom of expression, human rights and mutual respect between populations of different cultures or beliefs.
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