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

The coronavirus lockdown has started to become a pleasant treat for some animals who are taking the opportunity to come out of their usual hiding places and enjoy the empty streets just for themselves. Taslima Nasreen, a Bangladeshi writer and activist shared multiple pictures of animals and birds roaming freely on the streets of various cities across the globe. The 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 the towns and the cities which they usually avoided prior to the lockdown. Almost half the world's population has gone under a complete lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus. Pictures and videos showing civet, deers, elephants, Kashmiri goats and other animals taking the streets in different parts of the world had been doing rounds on social media for a long time now.

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Coronavirus outbreak

The 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. The virus is believed to have originated from a seafood market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the initial epicentre of the disease, where animals were reportedly being traded illegally. Other countries that are currently the worst affected are Italy, Spain, France, Iran and the United Kingdom, where the death toll has surpassed 15,000 mark each. 

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