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Health workers play music and pray for Covid-19 patients at a chapel in a hospital in Belem, Brazil, on Easter Sunday:

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Police broke up illegal raves in England over Easter weekend, with fines issued for breaches of Covid-19 regulations, PA reports.

Essex police said around 100 people attended an unlicensed music event on land off Buckingham Hill Road in the town of Stanford-le-Hope on Saturday night.

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