This year's Easter will be very different from what people all over the world are used to. Citizens are encouraged to stay at home and maintain a safe distance of at least 1.5 metres from others. Church services will be televised and streamed online.
Nevertheless, people have started celebrating the Easter season amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, buying pastries and chocolate eggs, or making treats themselves.
Many confectionery and bakeries have even been inspired by the pictures of COVID-19, making chocolate eggs in the form of the virus.
Chocolate maker Jean-Francois Pre shows off an easter egg shaped like the novel coronavirus, the cause of the COVID-19 outbreak, made of white chocolate coloured in black and red coloured almonds, in his shop in Landivisiau, western France, on 7 March 2020.
Vanda Mrazikova and Martina Kacenova, dressed in traditional costumes with protective face masks, show a coloured Easter egg that reads COVID-19 and the year 2020, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in the village of Soblahov, Slovakia, 7 April 2020.
A picture taken on Palm Sunday, 5 April 2020 in Salzburg, Austria shows colourful hard boiled eggs in a box, as easter celebrations this year will be held in the extraordinary circumstances of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
A client with a face mask leaves the shop of pastry and chocolate maker Didier Girard after buying Easter chocolates in Vourles, near Lyon at on 7 April 2020, on the twenty-second day of a strict lockdown in France to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Vanda Mrazikova and Martina Kacenova, dressed in traditional costumes with protective face masks, paint a coloured Easter egg that reads COVID-19 and the year 2020, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in the village of Soblahov, Slovakia, 7 April 2020.
Chocolate-shaped Moais from Easter Island, stand on display in the workshop "Atelier N° 5" in La Foret-Fouesnant, western France on 7 April 2020, ahead of the Christian holiday of Easter.
Vanda Mrazikova and Martina Kacenova, dressed in traditional costumes with protective face masks, decorate a weeping willow with coloured Easter eggs, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in the village of Soblahov, Slovakia, 7 April 2020.
Chocolate maker Jean-Francois Pre shows easter eggs shaped like a novel coronavirus, the cause of the COVID-19 outbreak, made of white chocolate coloured in black and red coloured almonds, in his shop in Landivisiau, western France, on 7 March 2020.
Chocolate easter bunnies wearing protective face masks are on display at the confectionery of Greek pastry chef Marios Papadopoulos, during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Thessaloniki, Greece, 6 April 2020.
An employee prepares chocolate Easter bunnies wearing protective masks at Baeckerei Bohnenblus in Bern, Switzerland 25 March 2020.
Employees of pastry and chocolate maker Didier Girard prepare Easter chocolates before delivering them to clients' homes in Vourles, near Lyon at on 7 April 2020, on the twenty-second day of a strict lockdown in France to stop the spread of COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus.
