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As the sun sets on Donald Trump’s presidency, the US capital has become a fortified “ghost town”.
On Tuesday, tens of thousands of National Guard troops patrolled the streets around the US Capitol building, the National Mall and the White House.
The day before the inauguration of the new president, there were dozens of police checkpoints and heavily armed men and women at nearly every corner of the city centre.
Covid-19 and the high security surrounding president-elect Joe Biden and vice president-elect Kamala Harris’s inauguration has made the city look more like a closed-down movie set than the bustling capital of the world’s oldest democracy.