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pope usually before crowds of tens of thousands delivered responders ♪ >> reporter: moments of pause, messages over the internet to patient transporter in boston 1.2 billion catholics. singing a song of appreciation for his colleagues >> might be first time in history that st. peter's square ♪ sometimes in our lives we all is empty on easter have pain, we all have sorrow ♪ but pope francis sees optimism here, hoping to see contagion of >> reporter: while this physician at yale new haven hospital sang from his heart home >> reporter: in boston, ordaned after leaving night shift in the letting go of their own anxieties and fears, these leaders taking measured steps. nurses and doctors sang to each christians reminded to believe other too, reminder we're all in in higher power. >> it's never a question of what this together ♪ we all need somebody to lean god is doing to us, but low are on ♪ >> reporter: at hospitals across we responding to what's happening. the nation, singing through dark >> reporter: but in louisiana and orlando, some churches times. ♪ let it be, let it be, let it defied warnings with in-person be, let it be ♪ services pandemic changing so much, including the traditional family supper ♪ imagine all the people, livin

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are you looking at rio de janeiro's famous christ the redeemer statue wearing a doctor's coat last night to honor medics on the front lines of hospitals around the world battling to stop the coronavirus, messages of hope in different languages and flags from around the world projected on the statue. more than 1.8 million people have been infected worldwide, and while the numbers continue to climb, places in hard-hit europe are seeing decline in new infections and deaths. u.k. prime minister boris johnson has been discharged from hospital cal perry is live from london. >> good morning. prime minister is resting comfortably at checkers, his

residence 40 miles outside of london spent seven days in total in the hospital, three in intensive care gave an address to the nation posted on the social media in which he saved the doctors and nurses for saving his life, thanked two in particular by his bedside for 48 hours when it could have gone either way that's good news bad news is surpassed 10,000 in death toll, fifth country to do so 737 died last 24 hours in italy we're seeing the downward end of the curve. only 400 -- can't fwlbelieve sag only 431 people died easter sunday pope gave that very holy mass to hundreds of millions of people viewing it digitally, online, spoke about a need for unity, continued

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