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Through the first quarter of 2020, arts and culture sector organisations around the world progressively restricted their public activities and then closed completely due to the pandemic. Starting with China, East Asia, and then worldwide, by late March most cultural heritage organisations had closed, and arts events were postponed or cancelled ...
These museums include Hammer Museum in L.A, Anne Frank House, National Museum of Indonesia, Ghent Altarpiece in Belgium etc. Google Arts and Culture [89] made visitors become virtual globetrotters and see arts and exhibitions from over 1200 thousand museums around the world. It also provides the Zoom capability for people to explore the ...
The Great Lockdown has been used to refer to a number of topics related to the COVID-19 pandemic which occurred in 2020: The pandemic as a whole; COVID-19 lockdowns;
Vincent van Gogh's self-portraits were briefly upstaged by a nail salon and barber as civil disobedience to protest the Dutch coronavirus lockdown spread Wednesday to the cultural sector.
As of 12 April, nearly 300 million people, or about 90 per cent of the population, are under some form of lockdown in the United States, [441] more than 50 million people are in lockdown in the Philippines, [442] about 59 million people are in lockdown in South Africa, [443] and 1.3 billion people are in lockdown in India. [444] [445]
According to UNESCO monitoring, more than a hundred countries implemented nationwide school closures in response to COVID-19, impacting over half the world's student population. [8] In the United Kingdom , the government advised the public to avoid public spaces, and cinemas and theatres voluntarily closed to encourage the government's message.
The world's longest continuous lockdown lasting 234 days took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2020. As of October 2021, the city of Melbourne, Australia , and certain cities in Peru and Chile spent the most cumulative days in lockdown over separate periods, although measures varied between these countries.
The claim: The WHO ordered nations to prepare for ‘mega lockdowns’ because of mpox. An Aug. 16 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of the World Health Organization's ...