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Coronavirus Lockdown/Coronavirus Shutdown

A security measure taken by many countries around the world, due to the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19, to prevent people from getting sick. The imposed lockdown has different forms: city/country lockdown, full/partial lockdown, closure of land and air borders, interdiction of movement for people, restricting civilian travel, barred cars, closure of pubs, shops, markets, entertainment centers, etc. The first coronavirus lockdown was imposed on 23 January 2020 in Wuhan city, home to 11 million people, where COVID-19 is thought to have originated. The second was Italy on 21 February 2020, which shut down the northern region, that was most severely affected by the virus. Two days later Italy extended the lockdown over the entire country. One of the measures taken by Israel, resulting from the lockdown, refers to the right of the country’s internal security agency to tap into its citizens’ phones and track their movements as a method of combating the spread of coronavirus.

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