COVID-19: Animals, birds roam freely on streets amid lockdown

coronavirus lockdown has started to become a pleasant treat for some animals who are taking opportunity to come out of ir usual hiding places and enjoy empty streets just for mselves. Taslima Nasreen, a Bangladeshi writer and activist shared multiple pictures of animals and birds roaming freely on streets of various cities across globe. pictures have garnered more than 370 likes on Twitter and over 30 users have retweeted it. 

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Animals have started to come out on roads in large numbers, entering towns and cities which y usually avoided prior to lockdown. Almost half world's population has gone under a complete lockdown to contain spread of coronavirus. Pictures and videos showing civet, deers, elephants, Kashmiri goats and or animals taking streets in different parts of world had been doing rounds on social media for a long time w.

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Coronavirus outbreak

coronavirus outbreak has infected over 2.41 million people globally and has killed nearly 1,65,000 patients since it first broke out in December 2019. virus is believed to have originated from a seafood market in Chinese city of Wuhan, initial epicentre of disease, where animals were reportedly being traded illegally. Or countries that are currently worst affected are Italy, Spain, France, Iran and United Kingdom, where death toll has surpassed 15,000 mark each. 

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