Street artist takes to New York City walls to spread awareness about COVID-19

In a bid to spread public health awareness about vel coronavirus pandemic, one street artist in New York is urging people to ‘stay positive’ and maintain social distance through wall paintings. DeGrupo, NY street artist, has created signs around city with messs like ‘wash your hands’ and ‘stay home’. street artist started writing those messs on walls after he watched many of his fellow New Yorkers failing to follow health experts’ pleas to create social distance. 

DeGrupo reportedly said that he has tried to stay positive, but as numbers of infected continue to grow, he said that he has been fighting a sense of helplessness. street artist added that he has been keeping his distance from everyone and only occasionally leaves his apartment to post his messs. Furrmore, he added that social distance has left him feeling incredibly lonely, but he still believes that it is necessary to beat deadly virus. 

DeGrupo said, “My art, doing art and spreading this mess out, it helps me keep-alive”. He added, “We need to stay positive. We need to stay focused and I think by staying away from each or, distance ourselves from each or I think this epidemic is gonna go away or even we are going to have more time to find a cure”. 

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US could become new epicentre 

Meanwhile, World Health Organisation said that US has potential to become new epicentre of deadly virus due to a ‘very lr acceleration in infections’ in country. Currently, US has 54,881 confirmed coronavirus cases and deadly virus has claimed more than 780 lives in country. crisis due to pandemic has prompted more goverrs to join states ordering all citizens to stay at home and practice social distancing. WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris has told reporters that over past 24 hours, 85 per cent of new cases worldwide were from Europe and US and out of those, at least 40 per cent were just from US.  However, WHO spokesperson also lauded improvements made in country with more intensified testing among or efforts to isolate sick and trace ir immediate contacts exposed to fatal COVID-19.

(With AP inputs) 

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