COVID-19 lockdowns

COVID-19 pandemic caused many governments to limit the spread of the disease by adding stay-at-home orders, curfews, quarantines, cordons sanitaires and similar societal restrictions. By April 2020, about half of the world's population was under some form of lockdown, with more than 3.9 billion people in more than 90 countries or territories having been asked or ordered to stay at home by their governments.Coronavirus: Half of humanity now on lockdown as 90 countries call for confinement Alasdair Sandford www.euronews.com, 03/04/2020, accessed 31 October 2020

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