What is COVID-19 lockdowns?
[[COVID-19 pandemic]] caused many governments to limit the spread of the disease by adding [[stay-at-home order]]s, [[curfew]]s, [[quarantine]]s, [[Cordon sanitaire (medicine)|''cordons sanitaires'']] and similar societal restrictions.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/coronavirus-updates-5-dead-200-infected-italy-europe-braces-covid-n1141466 |title=Coronavirus: 7 dead, 229 infected in Italy as Europe braces for COVID-19 |work=[[NBC News]] |access-date=29 February 2020 |archive-date=16 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200516012124/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/coronavirus-updates-5-dead-200-infected-italy-europe-braces-covid-n1141466 |url-status=live}}</ref> By April 2020, about half of the world's population was under some form of lockdown, with more than 3.9&nbsp;billion people in more than 90 countries or territories having been asked or ordered to stay at home by their governments.<ref>[https://www.euronews.com/2020/04/02/coronavirus-in-europe-spain-s-death-toll-hits-10-000-after-record-950-new-deaths-in-24-hou Coronavirus: Half of humanity now on lockdown as 90 countries call for confinement] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200519122856/https://www.euronews.com/2020/04/02/coronavirus-in-europe-spain-s-death-toll-hits-10-000-after-record-950-new-deaths-in-24-hou |date=19 May 2020}} Alasdair Sandford ''www.euronews.com'', 03/04/2020, accessed 31 October 2020</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{stub}} [[Category:COVID-19 pandemic]]