Zendaya, John David Washington Shoot New Movie during Lockdown

While the rest of the world was on lockdown due to the Coronavirus pandemic, Zendaya was hard at work on her new movie, titled "Malcolm & Marie", featuring co-starring John David Washington.

On Wednesday, Zendaya confirmed that she has completed shooting a secret new movie, and now fans finally got their first look at the movie.

The 23-year-old actress blew Twitter up after she posted the first photo from her upcoming movie, which was conceptualised when she contacted Euphoria creator Sam Levinson— the HBO series which she stars in— and asked him if he could write and direct a movie during the lockdown period.

Production of the second season of Euphoria was shut down on March 16, and Levinson came up with the draft for the movie six days after speaking with Zendaya. John David Washington was next to come on board.

"Malcolm & Marie" is reportedly a drama on the same lines of Netflix’s hit movie“Marriage Story”, and will also explore relevant social themes that the world is experiencing through right now.

The shooting was done from June 17 to July 2 in an environmentally-conscious house in Carmel, California, with the set was limited to only 12 people. A separate ranch was used to hold everyone and keep all cast and crew quarantined together throughout the shoot.

The cast and crew had to follow a strict set of guidelines including temperature checks, rehearsals in a parking lot, separate rooms for the actors, actors having to mic themselves and handle their own costumes, etc.

So far, there has been no announcement about a release date for Malcolm & Marie. Despite Zendaya and Levinson were able to complete shooting the movie during the lockdown, there are still no updates on when their other collaboration Euphoria plans to resume production.

The novel coronavirus was first reported in Wuhan, China, and has infected about 12,081,516 million people and killed over 550,000, worldwide, a tally based on official data showed. It also hit several celebrities and top political figures around the world.

The United States topped the list of the worst affected countries, with over 132,000 deaths, followed by Brazil with over 67,964, the United Kingdom with 44,517, and Italy with 34,914.

Europe listed over 2,782,032 cases and 201,124 deaths, making it the worst affected continent.

The virus is a new member of the Coronaviruses group, which was never identified in humans. The viruses’ family also includes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV), which cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases.

Coronaviruses are zoonotic, meaning they are transmitted between animals and people. Humans and animals such as mammals and birds can be affected by the disease.

The name coronavirus is derived from the Latin corona, meaning “crown” or “halo”.

On February 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the official name for the disease caused by the new coronavirus is Covid-19, taken from the words “corona”, “virus” and “disease”.

In December 2019, an outbreak was reported in Wuhan, China. On 31 December 2019, the outbreak was traced to a novel strain of coronavirus, which was given the interim name 2019-nCoV by the World Health Organization (WHO), it was later renamed SARS-CoV-2 by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses.

On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus a global pandemic as the new virus has rapidly spread to more than 800,000 people from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, and the United States.

Transmission of viruses between humans happens when someone comes into contact with an infected person’s secretions, such as droplets in a cough.

Coronavirus can also be transmitted by coming into contact with something an infected person has touched and then touching your mouth, nose, or eyes.

It is known that older people appear to be more vulnerable to the effects of the emerging virus.

The virus caused complete paralysis in all activities and events with large gatherings worldwide due to concerns over the spread of the virus.

People across the globe partake in self-isolation for 14 days as an effective precautionary measure to protect those around them and themselves from contracting COVID-19.