Have you ever wondered why is social distancing important ? If you have we have the answer for you. The reason for Social distancing-: The COVID-19 has the potential to infect anyone within the distance of 6  feet radius of any infected body.  Lock-down's purpose  - The word 'lock-down' has been trending on news channels across the world but do we even know the purpose of having one ? The lock-down has played out an important part to prevent covid-19 spread faster because if at one time lot of people assemble in one area and even if one is carrying the virus he/she has the potential to infect 1.5 to 3.5 people (according to Imperial college group's research) which means that if one person carries it he/she can spread it to 3.5 and those 3.5 can spread it to other 3.5 which can end up making cases grow at a rapid rate and can make millions get infected in less than a month and thankfully this hasn't happened because of lockdowns in various nations.

This blog documents the situation of the world's movement to tackle COVID-19  and how much is their progress Countries who are not performing good or are seeing a high rise in new cases (as of 17th May 2020)-   1) Russia- Has seen a high rise in cases in the past few weeks and is the worst impacted nation after USA. 2)Iran- One of the worst impacted nations overall and has been seeing a new growth but is slowly recovering although new cases have started to rise again. 3)Mexico- Cases in mexico have reached a new peak but we hope they will fall soon. Time taken by various countries to reach 1000 cases- 1) USA- Is the worst impacted country as of writing this blog and it took around 50 days for USA to reach 1000 cases. 2) Iran- One of the worst impacted nations of this pandemic took only 11 days to reach 1000 cases. 3) Russia- The second worst impacted nation due to the pandemic took 41 days to reach 1000 cases. 4) India- India took 59 days to cross 1000 cases.