BANGKOK – With borders slamming shut, schools and businesses closing and increasingly drastic restrictions on movement in place, tens of millions of people were hunkered down Tuesday, heeding government calls to isolate themselves and slow the spread of the new coronavirus.
From Southeast Asia to Europe to the Americas, people found their lives upended by lockdowns and social distancing. Shoppers in Malaysia stood in long lines to stock up at picked-over supermarkets.
Commuters in the Philippines waited in huge traffic jams at checkpoints set up to take their temperatures before entering the capital city.
Officials in seven San Francisco Bay Area counties issued a sweeping shelter-in-place mandate, ordering millions of residents to stay at