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Pictures of the week: May 17 - 23
  • Members of the public by the end of the day at Shoreditch Park when temperature hit 27 degrees.
  • Consultant Rheumatologist Frances Hall gets dressed in PPE before entering a ward where coronavirus patients are taking part in the TACTIC-R trial, at Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge, England on May 21, 2020, during the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. - The new trial known as TACTIC-R is testing whether existing drugs will help prevent the body's immune system from overreacting, which scientists hope could prevent organ failure and death in COVID-19 patients. (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth / POOL / AFP) (Photo by KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
  • People enjoy the hot weather at Whitley Bay beach in Tyneside as people flock to parks and beaches with lockdown measures eased. (Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • Katy Peters, of the London Vaccination Clinic, performs a German-made Nadal rapid antibody fingertip test for the detection of COVID-19 on client David Barton, a Capital markets lawyer aged 49, in Notting Hill, London, as the UK continues in lockdown to help curb the spread of the coronavirus.
  • Claire Grant from the National Trust for Scotland with a pile of Easter eggs in the Drawing Room at the National Trust's Georgian House in Edinburgh, as the Trust are trying to find homes for more than 15,000 chocolate eggs that are left over from Easter egg hunts that were cancelled at their properties around the UK due to the coronavirus lockdown.
  • Men sailing on a dinghy at Priory Country Park Lake following the ease of restrictions on forms of exercise during the COVID 19 Lockdown as temperatures hit 27 degrees C, the hottest day of the year in the UK. (Photo by Keith Mayhew / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)
  • General view of the river Thames in central London at dawn, showing Southwark Bridge, Tower Bridge, and skyscrapers at Canary Wharf, after the introduction of measures to bring the country out of lockdown. (Photo by Dominic Lipinski/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • Brockley Street artist, Lionel Stanhope's reworked mural on Cornwall Road under Waterloo East station in London paying tribute to our health service heroes (NHS). (Photo by Dave Rushen / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)
  • Two ambulances stand parked in a car park as people relax during warm weather by the Serpentine lake, in Hyde Park, London, Wednesday, May 20, 2020. Lockdown restrictions due to the coronavirus outbreak have been relaxed allowing unlimited outdoor exercise and activities such as sunbathing. The UK's Met Office said Wednesday, it is the hottest day of the year so far with 27.8 Celsius recorded at Heathrow. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
  • Faye Faybourne, 17 (left), and Daisy Sloane, 16, from Killingworth on King Edwards' Bay, Tynemouth, as people flock to parks and beaches with lockdown measures eased. (Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • A pod of bottlenose dolphins off the north east coast between Whitley Bay and Cullercoats Bay as the temperature rises and the Met Office has predicted the hottest day of the year so far. (Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • West Mercia Police officers bow their heads while social distancing at the funeral of Jodon Gait, a healthcare assistant at Worcestershire Royal Hospital who died of COVID-19, at The Vale Crematorium in Fladbury, Worcestershire. Jackson Family Funeral Directors, LT & R Vowles coffin manufacturers and The Vale Crematorium have provided their services for free in honour of Jodon Gait, who has no UK family.
  • Sunrise at Blyth pier in Northumberland on the north east coast as the Met Office has predicted the hottest day of the year so far with temperatures set to hit 28C in some parts of the country. (Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • A man in a face mask walks in front of a mural of a nurse with a PPE face mask on, painted by the artist Akse in Manchester's Northern Quarter, UK on 19th May 2020. (Photo by Pat Scaasi/MI News/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
  • Doctor Sharon Raymond who set up the Urgent Oximeter Rescue service, with a oximeter oxygen saturation probe in Brent Park, north west London. The volunteer group formed of NHS workers, the Biker Community and Army Veterans have created the first London wide 24/7 free 'loan' system, delivering Oximeters, vital oxygen saturation probes, within two hours to any Coronavirus patients who needs one. (Photo by Dominic Lipinski/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • French-styled restaurant chain, Caf� Rouge seen at The Wellington, London. The owner of the Bella Italia and Caf� Rouge restaurant chains has said it is considering administration as the coronavirus crisis pushes the struggling business near to collapse, putting 6,000 jobs at risk. (Photo by Dave Rushen / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)
  • A pair of White Storks tend their nest near Horsham, southern England on May 18, 2020. - The White stork has been reintroduced to England after an absence of over 800 years. (Photo by Glyn KIRK / AFP) (Photo by GLYN KIRK/AFP via Getty Images)
  • Commuters at Canning Town underground station in east London, after the introduction of measures to bring the country out of lockdown. (Photo by Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • Food supplies are sorted at a depot for a new pan-London partnership containing the West London Alliance boroughs to secure supplies of PPE to crucial local services on the front line, after the introduction of measures to bring the country out of lockdown. (Photo by Aaron Chown/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • Two men walk past a sign reminding people to observe social distancing on Park Lane in London, England, on May 18, 2020. Britain began its ninth week of coronavirus lockdown today, a day after the lowest reported covid-19 death toll (170) across the country since March. A day of even lower covid-19 fatalities today (160) is meanwhile cementing hopes that the UK is firmly into the recovery phase of its coronavirus crisis, and that its continued emergence from lockdown will be able to carry on as planned. (Photo by David Cliff/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
  • Building work progressing outside the new AFC Wimbledon Plough Lane stadium as the UK continues in the ninth week to help curb the spread of the coronavirus.
  • A member of the public at Glasgow Green as part of gatherings taking place this weekend across the UK against the coronavirus pandemic restrictions after the introduction of measures to bring the country out of lockdown.
  • File photo dated 24/03/20 of cyclists riding across an empty Westminster Bridge in Westminster, London, the day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson put the UK in lockdown to help curb the spread of the coronavirus. More than a third of people say they could rethink the way they travel after the coronavirus pandemic, a new survey suggests.
  • People enjoying the warm weather in Finsbury park during the COVID-19 lockdown as they observe social distancing. The government has relaxed the restrictions on coronavirus lockdown to allowing people to spend more time outside. (Photo by Steve Taylor / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)
  • A couple eat fish and chips on Brighton beach today as the UK continues in lockdown to help curb the spread of the coronavirus. PA Photo. Picture date: Sunday May 17, 2020. See PA story HEALTH Coronavirus. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
  • Visitors to Brighton beach in East Sussex take a selfie photograph today as the UK continues in lockdown to help curb the spread of the coronavirus. PA Photo. Picture date: Sunday May 17, 2020. See PA story HEALTH Coronavirus. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
  • A protester holding a placard saying, Stop The Lies! No to Tyranny, during the demonstration. As part of the unified peaceful mass gathering, a countrywide event to protest against the new coronavirus bill, mandatory vaccines and to reject what protests call an unlawful lockdown, people demonstrate at Southampton Common. (Photo by Dawn Fletcher-Park / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)
  • Petrol pumps at a Tesco petrol station selling unleaded petrol at 99.9p per litre, the first time since 2016 petrol has been sold below �1 per litre. The global oil market crash triggered by the coronavirus lockdown has seen the crude oil price plummet to a near 20-year low. Now, led by UK Supermarket chains, Unleaded petrol is now on sale throughout the country at below �1 per litre. (Photo by Keith Mayhew / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)
  • Penny seen speaking to a police officer after travelling to the city to raise her concerns about the lockdown and the proposed actions that may come due to the coronavirus. The UK Freedom Movement organised Mass Gathering events all around the country to protest against the unlawful lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Andy Barton / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)
  • A protester seen with a placard on her back during the anti-lockdown protest. The UK Freedom Movement organised Mass Gathering events all around the country to protest against the unlawful lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Andy Barton / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)

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