Eight ways lockdown has changed our homes and habits
For almost a year, Londoners have been trapped inside the four walls of their homes. To mark the start of These Four Walls, our new series on how the pandemic has changed our domestic lives, we explore its impact on everything from how we sleep to what we eat by Eastlondonlines/ April 12, 2021/
By Anna Prudhomme, Nenseh Koneh, Weronika Strzyzynska
The last year has been absolutely unprecedented; one lockdown turned into three, “stay home, protect the NHS, save lives” has been permanently engrained on our brains, and we now consider beer a “substantial meal.” Many of us have seen our entire lives reduced to the four walls of our homes. And, while its still too soon to tell what our lives will look like after we re-enter the outside world, we have have found eight ways in which we adapted our dwelling spaces to accommodate our new homebody life s
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As millions gather to celebrate Kumbh Mela, India’s coronavirus cases surge, overtaking Brazil in total number of infections
India reported a record increase of 168,912 new coronavirus cases on 12 April, bringing the country’s total number of cases since the start of the pandemic to about 13.53 million. India’s tally is now the second-highest in the world, narrowly overtaking Brazil, but remaining below the 31.2 million cases reported so far in the US.
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According to estimates from Johns Hopkins University, infections in India are on course to double in two months. Some officials have expressed concerns about crowding at religious festivals and political rallies. In the northern city of Haridwar almost a million people gathered by the Ganges river on 12 April to participate in the Hindu festival Kumbh Mela. “The police are continuously appealing to people to maintain social distancing,