1.7 billion people globally under coronavirus lockdown

AKIPRESS.COM - Around one in five people around the globe are under lockdown, ordered to stay home as the world enters a critical week in responding to the accelerating coronavirus pandemic, The Guardian reports. As of Tuesday there have been at least 378,679 confirmed cases of people with the virus across the world. More than 16,500 people have died while almost 101,000 have recovered.
The first 100,000 cases took 67 days to appear, while the most recent 100,000 just four days, noted the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. But "we are not helpless bystanders", he said.
An estimated 1.7 billion people have been ordered to remain at home as governments take extreme measures to protect their populations.