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Sunday, April 19, 2020

Photos of the Week: by ALAN TAYLOR


A red panda is pictured among cherry blossoms at Manor Wildlife Park in St. Florence, Wales, on April 15, 2020. The park is crowdfunding for food to feed its endangered animals as the spread of the coronavirus continues

Luna watches from a tulip field on a sunny day in Grevenbroich, Germany, on April 15, 2020

Giulio Giovannini, 12, studies with a tablet, a small camping table, and a chair on top of a hill, where he is able to access the internet to participate in online lessons while schools remain closed in Scansano, Italy, on April 15, 2020.

A Palestinian mother entertains her children with makeshift masks made of cabbage as she cooks in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on April 16, 2020

Cheerleaders wearing face masks are seen at the first professional-baseball-league game of the season, at Taoyuan International Baseball Stadium in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, on April 11, 2020

Cardboard cutouts of fans are seen prior to the Chinese Professional Baseball League season-opening game between the Rakuten Monkeys and the CTBC Brothers at Taoyuan International Baseball Stadium in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, on April 11, 2020. The game was set to be played behind closed doors, without fans, due to the coronavirus pandemic. 

People observe social-distancing measures as they stand among hospital cubicles, while a giant screen displays an image of British Health Secretary Matt Hancock, speaking via video link during the official opening of the NHS Nightingale Hospital Birmingham on April 16, 2020. The hospital was set up inside the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England, to help Britain's National Health Service cope with an expected influx of patients during the coronavirus pandemic.

President Donald Trump departs after speaking about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House on April 14, 2020.

A woman walks through the Square Mile at sunrise in London, England, on April 10, 2020

The Oculus transit hub sits empty of commuters on Easter Sunday, April 12, 2020, in New York City. 

A view of an empty street in Moscow, Russia, on April 15, 2020. Special digital passes were introduced in Russia for trips on personal and public transport, to work, medical facilities, or the grocery store. The pass is mandatory for travel around the city and can be obtained online or through a call or SMS. 

A view of Tower Bridge at sunrise in London, England, on April 16, 2020

A girl wears a mask while walking as the sun sets over the Mediterranean Sea coastline in Beirut, Lebanon, on April 14, 2020

A worker cleans a tunnel in the center of Budapest, Hungary, with a high-pressure washer on April 14, 2020

The bishop of Mallorca, Sebastià Taltavull, offers the traditional Easter Sunday Mass in a deserted cathedral in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, during the coronavirus outbreak on April 12, 2020

The sun begins to rise through trees standing among bluebells, also known as wild hyacinth, in the Hallerbos forest in Halle, Belgium, on April 16, 2020.

The Italian tenor and opera singer Andrea Bocelli rehearses outside the Duomo cathedral on a deserted Piazza del Duomo in central Milan on April 12, 2020, prior to an evening performance, without a live audience, for a world wounded by the pandemic.

Izabela Pitcher, the owner of Prior Attire, and her husband, Lucas, take their daily evening walk around their Buckinghamshire village near Milton Keynes, England, dressed in historical attire on April 13, 2020

Members of the artistic group Cirk La Putyka perform for residents stuck at home in Prague, Czech Republic, on April 14, 2020

People ride motorcycles during a sandstorm in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on April 15, 2020

An aerial view of a boat on Die Hu (Butterfly Lake) in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China, on April 15, 2020

A shepherd leads a flock of sheep across the ancient Palu Bridge over the Murat River, a major source of the Euphrates as nomads make their way to the highlands with warmer temperatures in Elazig, Turkey, on April 13, 2020

A roll of toilet paper is towed by a drone as a stunt on the south bank of the River Thames in London on April 14, 2020

A statue of the Mexican actor and singer Pedro Infante in Mérida, Yucatán state, Mexico, is seen with a face mask on the 63rd anniversary of his death, April 15, 2020

A view of the world-famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Easter, April 12, 2020, with a doctor's uniform projected on it in honor of all the medical staff fighting the coronavirus worldwide.

Health workers gesture as citizens show their support from their balconies and windows in Barcelona, Spain, on April 15, 2020

Residents applaud across France to show their support to health-care employees in Paris on April 14, 2020, the 29th day of a lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus.

Emma Pritchett, 78, holds up a broken glass from her kitchen sink in Chatsworth, Georgia, on April 13, 2020, the day after a tornado hit. Severe weather swept across the South, killing multiple people and damaging hundreds of homes from Louisiana into the Appalachian Mountains

Construction workers walk at the site of the Grand Egyptian Museum, in front of the Giza pyramids, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, on April 13, 2020, after the museum's opening was postponed this year amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Police officers on horses ride on Fifth Avenue near Saint Patrick’s Cathedral on Easter Sunday, April 12, 2020, in New York City.

A large number of parked buses sit idle at a depot in the Brazilian city of Curitiba where only half of the fleet is circulating due to the drop in passengers caused by the coronavirus outbreak.

People pose for photos in a tulip field as the sun shines in Grevenbroich, Germany, on April 14, 2020

Lauren Dufrat wears gloves as a coronavirus precaution as she puts out Easter eggs for her neighbors' children to find on Easter Sunday, April 12, 2020, in Washington, D.C

Catholic priests ride on a truck with a statue of Jesus on the cross, to bless residents quarantined in their homes as part of Good Friday commemorations, amid a government lockdown on April 10, 2020, in Mandaluyong, Manila, Philippines

A policeman wearing a coronavirus helmet distributes pamphlets to raise awareness about the virus in a residential area of Chennai, India, on April 12, 2020

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