Week in pictures: 18-24 April 2020 - BBC News

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Spaced eight feet apart, United States Air Force Academy cadets celebrate their graduation as a team of F-16 Air Force Thunderbirds fly over the academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. After senior cadets spent more than a month on lockdown the graduation, which was moved forward by six weeks, marks the first time a military academy is graduating a class early since World War Two.

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Three beaches in Sydney, Australia, reopened on Monday for exercise on the sand, but many surfers were spotted taking to the water.

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A burial takes place at the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery in Manaus, in the Amazon forest in Brazil.

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More than 260 million Orthodox Christians around the world celebrated Easter, with church leaders asking worshippers to stay at home to avoid spreading Covid-19.

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An injured female great hornbill (Buceros bicornis) who lost the lower part of her beak is nursed back to health at the Kasetsart University Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Thailand. The veterinarians believe she was shot by a poacher before being rescued from the rainforest with several serious injuries to her beak and left wing, leaving her unable to fly. At least 13 of the world's known 57 species of hornbill live in Thailand.

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Staff from the Royal London Hospital take part in Clap for our Carers, in support of Britain's National Health Service.

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A woman receives a coronavirus antibody test at the Delmont Medical Care drive-in test site in Franklin Square, New York.

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A man drives an auto-rickshaw depicting the coronavirus, to create awareness about staying at home during a nationwide lockdown to slow the spreading of the coronavirus disease in Chennai, India.

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Maria, her partner and their dog watch the movie Loving Vincent projected on the wall of a neighbouring building, from their balcony in Berlin's Kreuzberg district. With cinemas closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, the cultural project Window Flicks is bringing films to residents stuck at home, by projecting movies and knocking on doors offering popcorn.

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Social Bite social enterprise volunteer Russell Bowers delivers food to resident Becky Foster and her children in Edinburgh, Scotland, during the national lockdown due to the novel coronavirus.