April 17

The Reverend Stuart Elliott blesses the new fire as part of his Service of New Light for Easter Eve on the shore of Llyn Mymbyr in Snowdonia on April 08, 2020 in Capel Curig, Wales. (Getty)

US President Donald Trump (C - partially hidden) gestures over the lectern as he speaks, flanked by (From L) Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, US Vice President Mike Pence and Response coordinator for White House Coronavirus Task Force Deborah Birx, during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House. (Getty)

Volunteers from the Violet organisation perform a puppet show for children in a camp for displaced Syrians, to inform them about the novel coronavirus and the methods used in order to limit its spread, in the village of Kafr Yahmul, north of the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib. (Getty)

Marco Antonio Galeana, parish priest of the Cordova church, hears the confession of a devotee outside the church in Acapulco, Mexico during the new coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (Getty)

Personnel of Local Defence Unit (LDU), Paramilitary force composed of civilians, deliver meiz flour and beans during the first day of food distribution for people who have been affected by the lockdown in Kampala. (Getty)

Police officers wearing protective suits fetch a resident suspected of having COVID-19 from his home in a slum area to be taken to an isolation facility on April 15, 2020 in Manila, Philippines. (Getty)