April 12, 2020

Pope Francis reads his "Urbi et Orbi" ("To the City and the World") message in St. Peter's Basilica with no public participation due to an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Easter Sunday at the Vatican.

Father Pedro (back), founder of the Akamasoa association, conducts the traditional Mass celebrating Easter in a granite quarry in Antananarivo, Madagascar, while respecting the rules of social distancing to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

People gather at the Mount Davidson cross in San Francisco, California. Mount Davidson's annual Easter Sunrise Service was canceled for the city's shelter in place orders over coronavirus concerns.

Archbishop Carlos Osoro, background an right, celebrates an Easter Sunday Mass inside an empty Almudena cathedral, in Madrid, Spain.

A small number of Jewish worshipers pray during the priestly blessing, a traditional prayer which usually attracts thousands of worshipers at the Western Wall on the holiday of Passover, amid the coronavirus outbreak, in Jerusalem's Old City.

A person runs past posters with a message of hope, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Manchester, Britain.

A car and a truck transport coffins containing the remains of people who are believed to have died from complications of the new coronavirus, to a cemetery in Guayaquil, Ecuador, April 11, 2020.

A police officer chases shoppers to clear the streets of the Red Light market on the first day of lockdown to stop the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Monrovia, Liberia, April 11, 2020.

A woman wearing a face mask and a child sit on rail tracks in Jakarta, Indonesia.

A male Mandarin duck walks along the Landwehr canal in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, Germany.