500 Million People in World Quarantined over Coronavirus

500 million people around the world have been quarantined in their homes over fears of contracting the Coronavirus.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has renamed that virus as COVID 19.

Governments of different countries of the world, from China to the Czech Republic and Venezuela, have directed their citizens not to leave their homes, in an attempt to avoid the spread of the virus.

Compulsory domestic quarantine measures were imposed for the first time in the Chinese province of Wuhan, in Hubei province.

The virus began spreading in late December in that province situated in the central part of China.

But restrictions on the movements of citizens in the province with a population of 50 million people were eased on March 14.

Since the 10th of March, eight other countries, namely Italy, Spain, Lebanon, the Czech Republic, France, Israel, Venezuela, and Belgium, have followed the example of the Chinese province in this matter.

In total, these sanitary measures extend to 240 million people.

In most of these places, citizens are allowed to leave their homes to purchase basic goods, obtain health care, or go to their place of work if it is not possible for them to perform their duties from their homes.

A number of other countries have taken specific dire measures in this area, such as Bulgaria, which has imposed health isolation on the Bansko ski resort.

Colombia enforced  residents of the capital Bogotá  to undergo examination procedures over the days from    March  20 to 23.

Four other countries, Austria, Britain, Germany, and Iran, have recommended their citizens to refrain as much as possible from unnecessary movements and contacts, without imposing mandatory quarantine measures on their total citizens of 240 million people.

In seven other countries and regions, namely Tunisia, eastern Libya, Bolivia, Serbia, the US state of New Jersey, the Puerto Rico of the United States, and the Philippine capital, Manila, a night curfew has been imposed, in a measure that covers more than 50 million people.