Managing the Lockdown
Different countries are adopting quite varied and at times unusual ways to manage the lockdown.
Panama
This Central American country has announced strict quarantine measures separating people by gender in an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Men and women are only able to leave their homes for two hours at a time, and on different days. No-one will be allowed to go out on Sundays.
Maybe this is partly designed to help give couples a break from each other?
Colombia
In some Colombian towns, people are allowed outside based on the last number of their national ID number.
People with an ID number ending in 0, 7 or 4, for example, are allowed to leave the house on Monday, while those with an ID number ending 1, 8 or 5 can go outside on Tuesday.
Nearby Bolivia is proposing a similar approach.
Serbia
At one point, Serbia's government introduced a "dog-walking hour" from 20:00 to 21:00 for those in lockdown. But that has now been scrapped due to “howls” of protest (excuse the pun) from dog-owners.
Austria
While the World Health Organization says that healthy people do not need to wear face masks unless caring for someone who is ill, Austria has made it obligatory to use them in supermarkets with millions of masks provided.
Although masks are a common sight in many parts of Asia, Austria is only the fourth European country to enforce the use of masks in public following in the footsteps of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Interesting times.