In Photos: Easter celebrations worldwide amid COVID-19 pandemic

Catholic priest father Georges Nicoli celebrates a Holy Thursday mass, livestreamed on Facebook, with pictures of parishioners taped to the benches in the empty Notre Dame De Lourdes church in Bastia, on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica on April 9, 2020, on 24th day of a lockdown in France aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus.

From left: A chocolate maker finishes easter chocolate rabbits with a face mask on April 11, 2020 in Troyes amid the spread of the COVID-19 disease caused by the novel coronavirus; French 3 stars Chef Christian Le Squer (R) and one star chef Alan Taudon (L) cook for employees of a Parisian hospital in the kitchen of "Le Cinq" restaurant at the Four Season George V palace hotel in Paris on April 11, 2020, to mark Easter as a tribute to healthcare workers amid the spread of the COVID-19 disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

A man attaches on a tree one of around 1600 Easter decorative eggs in a garden in Berlin on April 11, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic.

Clockwise: Roman Catholic priest John Wirach Amonpattana, wearing a face mask as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, gives a blessing to a devotee during a confession on Easter Sunday outside the Holy Redeemer Church in Bangkok; Congregants celebrate Easter during a "drive-up" church service at the Family Worship Center on April 12, 2020 in Beloit, Wisconsin. Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers authorized churches to hold drive-up services, despite the shelter-in-place order issued to curtail the spread of COVID-19, as long as congregants avoided person-to-person contact; Melody Fiore prepares to drink communion wine as she listens to a Facebook Live broadcast of the Easter service taking place inside the Sunshine Cathedral on April 12, 2020 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Ukranian descendant priest Elias Marinhuk wears a face mask and shield against the spread of the new coronavirus as he blesses Easter baskets carried by Catholic faithful on their cars in Curitiba, Parana state, Brazil.

View of the world famous Christ the Redeemer statue on Easter day with a doctor's uniform projected on it and reading “Thank you” in honour of all the medical staff fighting the COVID-9 coronavirus pandemic worldwide in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; This photo taken on April 9, 2020 in a ward of the Cremona hospital, southeast of Milan, Lombardy, shows a nurse wearing protective mask and gear posing with a giant Easter egg, during the country's lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19. 

From left: Boston Phillips, 11, dressed as a chick, and Landon Phillips, 12, dressed as the Easter Bunny, wave to cars during a drive-through Easter photo session at StoryHeights Church on April 11, 2020 in Newton, Massachusetts; A girl decorates eggs on Holy Saturday, as Christians worldwide following the Western Gregorian calendar mark the Easter holiday weekend, in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on April 11, 2020.

This combination of pictures created on April 12, 2020 shows Holy Week masses being celebrated behind closed doors amid the outbreak of the new coronavirus in (L-R and top to bottom) Caracas, Tlalnepantla in Mexico, San Jose and Ouro Preto in Brazil.
Easter Sunday celebrations were broadcasted to the parishioners on-line.

A Christian family prays together at home as they follow the live broadcasting of an Easter Sunday service on television from the All Saints' Cathedral in Nairobi, Kenya, on April 12, 2020.