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Coronavirus has now infected More Than a million people worldwide, But its impact reaches far beyond only those who had it.

the frequency of the use of The Word "never" is unprecedented at The Moment . According to Google Trends , it has been used Three Times more over The Last Two Weeks , as the highest point of the recorded previously.

As the governments around The World enact new measures and given the official report, we take a look at the impact it had on the people and The World around you.

The World

hazards to say the least.

In Colombia, the day, which allows you to leave The House , depends on The Number of their national ID card; in Serbia, a dog-walking-hour was introduced; and in Belarus, The President went to stay against medical advice, recommendation, vodka and saunas as a way, for sure.

Some of the most common approaches governments recommendations on social distancing for all or a part of the country have seen, to restrict while others have traded, all non-essential internal movement. The latter is often referred to as a lockdown.

When The Virus was first detected in China by The End of 2019, lockdown extreme rail.

But has spread as the outbreak in The World , it is more difficult to manage become. To take more countries, which have decided to adhere to the strictest measures possible.

had introduced in More Than 100 countries around The World , either a complete or partial block to The End of March 2020, impact on billions of people.

And many others recommended had limited movement for some or all of its citizens.

In regions, the only recently confirmed their first cases of the coronavirus, many countries seem to be learning from their Asian and European counterparts.

the governments seem to act faster and more severe in Africa as well.

China has managed to ease its restrictions after the passage through the worst time climbing cases and deaths, But life is still far from normal.

The rest of us have a long way to go.

flight risk

when The Virus first appeared, several countries in the initial restrictions on flights provided by China, or needs of the visitors from at-risk areas under quarantine on arrival.

After it has been declared a pandemic by The World health organization, the on 11. In March, There were comprehensive measures.

President Trump blocks all non-essential Travel to the US from the European Union on 15. March and A Day later, the EU did the same for all visitors from outside the Schengen free-Travel zone.

By The End of March, the air Transport of some of The World 's largest airports dropped had to drop to a fraction of what it was at the same time Last Year , or even what it was at the beginning of this month.

The Number of commercial flights in The Last month Fell by More Than a quarter of The World 's

In The Last week of March, as more and more countries introduced Travel restrictions to try to contain The Virus , the traffic decreased by 63% compared to the same period Last Year .

On 25 March, the Heathrow One of the busiest airports in The World serving over 80 million passengers per Year , recorded More Than 1,000 fewer flights in comparison with an equivalent day in the Year 2019.

movement

It is not only from city to city. Travel in the major cities around The World has come to a halt, such as restrictions on freedom of movement and social contact, in force.

As of 31. In March, residents in cities such as Madrid, Paris, London and New York were less than a tenth as many trips through the app, as you normally to data from the Travel app Citymapper.

In Milan in Northern Italy, was closed down for several weeks now, only 3% of the trips were planned, the mobile app, city mapper, compared with before the outbreak.

The data also show that people cut down on the Travel in The Days before the government forced shutdowns.

For example, the partial lockdown in Sao Paulo , Brazil's most populous city, came to the place, on the 24th of March, But before Travel is already heavily declining in the week.

Even in cities where the authorities have the recommendations on social distancing and apart from the imposition of the strict locking feature, it seems that people still restrict their Travel .

where the government's draconian measures, guidelines has avoided, rather than the strict rules of The City mapper data suggests that planned trips - by foot and Public Transport Fell by 70%.

Stockholm Public Transport company reported last week that passenger numbers on the U-Bahn and s-Bahn was cut in half.

movement is also sub-normal prices in some cities in Asia, city mapper collects data, such as Hong Kong and Singapore, which Are not enforced, the nature of the shutdown elsewhere seen.

The South Korean capital Seoul has not come to a standstill, as the main European cities, despite large numbers of coronavirus cases - A Sign of the country is the decision to focus on widespread testing and contact tracing rather than social distance.

We see the same behavior with people on the streets. Major cities around The World have already been booked less and less, before the official lockdown measures came, congestion data from site technology specialists TomTom shows.

In Tokyo, There is still no official lockdown, But the schools Are already closed since the beginning of March. That, and a lack of tourists, which could explain why the traffic was slightly below the previous Year 's figures, without the sharp downturn evident elsewhere.

In Jakarta, Indonesia, where There is also no official blocking, congestion decreased already to almost Zero , similar to Los Angeles , and New Delhi , shutting down at different times.

The jam-score in The Chart below is an indication of how much longer would it take, A Trip through The City , in comparison with, if There is no traffic. A rating of 50 means that A Trip will take 50% more time, than it would be if the streets were completely free, for example, a half-hour journey would be 45 minutes. The periodic low points on the map, usually on the weekend.

In China, There Are signs that things Are beginning to get Back To normal. The traffic on the half of the 2019 level in Beijing and Shanghai, But steadily growing, since the beginning of February of the following advanced Chinese New Year celebrations of 25 January.

In Wuhan, where the outbreak has its origin, the volume of traffic even further towards Zero in comparison to Last Year .

environment

One of The Few positive effects of the shutdown is that it seems to have been a decline in air pollution in some parts of The World .

Level of NO2 in the atmosphere vary with factors such as wind speed and satellites to try to measure these levels Are hampered by the cloud cover.

This may explain some of the variability seen over Wuhan, and in the Northern Italy between January and March 2019, the in the maps below.

But in these places, the shutdowns were strict, and in the space for longer than elsewhere, and The Change in NO2-concentrations between 2019 and the months of the Year 2020, in which the shutdowns Are to be in their effect seems to be significant.

In the UK and in many other places, the available satellite data do not show, One way or the other, whether the continuous reduction in economic activity is accompanied by a corresponding decrease in the emissions, although they suggest that it is.

As we

working As the country shut down, many workers, they had to try to continue their office work from home.

this means That video calls and instant messaging, have been of inestimable value in the work room tools.

The average number of messages sent by users in New York , Paris, London and Berlin, More Than a third in just a few weeks.

. But - depending on where you Are - it could be a lot of time left to do that.

Daniel Dunford, Becky Dale, Nassos Stylianou, Ed Lowther, Maryam Ahmed and Irene de La Torre arenas.

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Source of news: bbc.com