A view of the 'super pink moon', in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, April 7, 2020. (AUNG SHINE OO / AP)

The largest, brightest supermoon of 2020 rose in the night sky on Tuesday over hushed cities, stilled factories and countries in lockdown due to the novel coronavirus that has killed tens of thousands worldwide.

If the moon is within 10 percent of its closest distance to the earth at the moment of full moon, it is considered to be a supermoon, according the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London.

A pink supermoon is seen over Belvoir castle in Leicestershire, England, April 7, 2020. (DANNY LAWSON / PA VIA AP)

April’s full moon will be the closest supermoon of 2020, and it is also known as the ‘Pink Moon’ after the pink flowers that start to appear in the fields this month in some places.

Watching in Beijing was local resident Ding Linlin, who said: “The epidemic situation in China is getting better and better. This [moon] may represent something good... I’m happy when I see it.”

An airplane flys past a super moon as it rises in the sky, April 7, 2020, in Orlando, Florida. (JOHN RAOUX / AP)

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In Spain, where the virus is still raging and 743 people died in the last day to take the death toll to almost 14,000, residents of the capital Madrid clapped for health workers from their balconies and windows beneath the supermoon.

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The supermoon rises over Santiago, on April 7, 2020. (MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP)

This picture shows the full moon in the sky as a hawk flies over Rome on April 7, 2020. (Tiziana FABI / AFP)

The Supermoon rises over apartment buildings in Moscow, Russia, April 7, 2020. (DMITRY KOZLOV / AP)

The waxing moon sets in the morning next to the pink neon angels, modeled on the little angels on Raphael's Sistine Madonna, on the Dresden Zwinger in Dresden, Germany, April 7, 2020. (ROBERT MICHAEL / DPA-ZENTRALBILD / DPA VIA AP)

A nearly full moon rises behind a top of the flagpole on the State Flag Square in Minsk, Belarus, April 7, 2020. (SERGEI GRITS / AP)

The super moon rises in the sky in front of the Apollo's temple about 80 kilometers southwest of Athens on April 7, 2020. (PETROS GIANNAKOURIS / AP)