Coloured Eggs and Chocolate Bunnies Ready for Easter Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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An employee prepares chocolate Easter bunnies wearing protective masks at Baeckerei Bohnenblus in Bern, Switzerland 25 March 2020.

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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.