Orthodox Easter in Ukraine, health-care workers on the job, a fundraiser in New Jersey, empty streets in Moscow, the U.S. Air Force Academy commencement in Colorado, surfers in Australia, idle aircraft in Denver, preparations to reopen Austria, and much more
Photos of the Week: Tiny Pony, Quiet Wedding, Bosporus Strait
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Health-care workers stand in the street in counterprotest to hundreds of people who gathered at the state capitol to demand the stay-at-home order be lifted in Denver, Colorado, on April 19, 2020. #
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Staff from La Paz hospital hold a minute of silence to remember Joaquin Diaz, the hospital's chief of surgery who died of COVID-19, amid the outbreak in Madrid, Spain, on April 20, 2020. #
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An aerial view of cemetery workers unloading a coffin from a truck in an area where new graves have been dug at the Parque Taruma cemetery, during the coronavirus pandemic, in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, on April 21, 2020. #
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United Airlines planes sit parked on a runway at Denver International Airport as the coronavirus pandemic slows air travel, on April 22, 2020, in Denver, Colorado. Compared with the same time last year, Denver International Airport is operating 1,000 fewer flights daily. #
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An empty freeway intersection is seen two days before Earth Day, after Los Angeles’s stay-at-home order caused a drop in pollution, in Pasadena, near Los Angeles, California, on April 20, 2020. #
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A ship makes its way up the Bosporus Strait as a small number of cars cross a nearly empty Bosporus Bridge during a two-day lockdown on April 19, 2020, in Istanbul, Turkey. #
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A man carries a paddle board on the dock of a hotel as the facility prepares to reopen on May 1, in Grundlsee, Austria, on April 22, 2020. Deconfinement will start on May 1 in Austria, with restaurants and hotels reopening in stages. #
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Rodolphe Delord, director of the zoological park of Beauval, interacts with a hippopotamus inside its enclosure in Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher, on the 31st day of a strict lockdown in France. #
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The pony Wizz is photographed next to a resident's window while being taken for a walk by Daisy Cinque from Park Lane Stables in Teddington, as part of an event called Tiny Pony at Your Window, in London, England, on April 22, 2020. #
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Egyptians shop in the roofed Khayamiya Street in the old city of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on April 19, 2020, ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. From canceled iftar feasts to suspended mosque prayers, Muslims across the Middle East are bracing for a bleak month of Ramadan fasting as the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic lingers. #
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Cinemagoers watch a movie while sitting in their car at a newly opened drive-in cinema in front of the "Phoenix West," a former blast furnace in Dortmund, Germany, on April 20, 2020. #
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Surfers return to Maroubra beach on April 20, 2020, in Sydney, Australia. Coogee, Maroubra, and Clovelly beaches in Randwick Council reopened today for exercise only. #
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Newly married Tyler and Caryn Suiters embrace following their wedding ceremony performed by Reverend Andrew Merrow in an otherwise empty St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Arlington, Virginia, on April 18, 2020. Reverend Merrow and his wife, Cameron Merrow, were the only other attendees at the ceremony due to social-distancing guidelines. #
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Air Force Academy cadets, spaced eight feet apart, listen to a commencement address by Vice President Mike Pence as the class of 2020 graduates six weeks early due to the coronavirus pandemic, on April 18, 2020, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. #
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In this aerial photo taken on April 21, 2020, farmers line up their tractors carrying wheat at a wholesale market in Majholi Tehsil village, some 45 kilometers from Jabalpur, India. #
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Luca Campeotto trains in isolation on April 21, 2020, in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy. Campeotto holds the Italian record for the 200 meter T62 and was part of Team Italy in the 2018 Para Athletics European Championships held in Berlin and in the 2019 Para Athletics World Championships held in Dubai. #
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Patti Scialfa and Bruce Springsteen perform during "Jersey 4 Jersey," a one-night broadcast fundraiser to fight the impact of COVID-19 in New Jersey, presented on April 22, 2020. #
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A cyclist takes a picture of a recently painted mural by the professional street artist David Speed and the Graffiti Life collective, to show appreciation for the people who work in England's National Health Service, in East London, on April 23, 2020. #
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Dr. Natalia Echeverri (right) talks with Karen Karoline Rosales, who is homeless, about testing for COVID-19, on April 17, 2020, in Miami, Florida. Community organizations are working to call attention to the potential public-health crisis facing the homeless due to the virus outbreak. #
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Health-care workers of the Medical Emergency Services of Madrid, wearing protective suits, visit a suspected COVID-19 patient at her home in Madrid, Spain, on April 19, 2020. #
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A priest sprinkles holy water on believers during the Orthodox Easter celebrations amid the coronavirus outbreak in the rebel-controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine, on April 19, 2020. #
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A young Kashmiri goat grazes and plays on the rocky Great Orme in Llandudno, Wales, on April 22, 2020. A herd of Kashmiri goats recently hit the headlines when they were drawn down from the mountainous Great Orme by the lack of people due to the coronavirus outbreak and quarantine measures, into Llandudno town center to graze on people's gardens and hedges. The goats have now returned to their natural habitat, although locals say they are still making the occasional raid on people's gardens at night. #
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A nurse at the Lebanese hospital Notre Dame des Secours makes a heart gesture with her hands as others dance to music played by a band thanking them for their efforts to support patients during the coronavirus pandemic, in the coastal city of Byblos, Lebanon, on April 23, 2020. #
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