Chennai: Even with the world walking into a shutdown over the COVID-19 pandemic that has broken out in almost all countries, borders are defining themselves in a new way. While all countries are closing down travel routes with some vulnerable countries being put into the 'banned' category, people and nations are finding ways to endure and help out.

India has been imposing travel bans since last Friday, long after several countries had put travel restrictions to people flying from India. India has banned the entry of Indians from the EU, Turkey, and the UK. The government has also imposed a compulsory 14-day quarantine for passengers coming from UAE, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, China, Korea, Iran, Spain, France, Germany, and Italy. 

The worst affected countries, meanwhile, are finding ways to help each other. Having born the brunt of the epidemic during its inception, China is now actively sending out help to worst-affected countries like Italy. China, which built several emergency hospitals and put entire provinces under shutdown while reeling to deal with the demand for medical supplies, is now reporting a comparatively lesser number of new cases each day. However, Italy is going through a spike with several hospitals reaching their maximum capacities. Italy is the first country to be forced into a national shutdown, a scenario which might soon befall countries like Americas which has failed to break the contagion chain.

America, meanwhile, is drawing flak after the CDC itself admitted to a lack of testing supplies and owned up that the number of cases within America may be more than the numbers indicated by the record.

Swiss hospitals have also put up an SOS as they are running close to their maximum capacities. Thailand reported 30 more cases on Tuesday and the slowdown in the local economy has hit people hard. 

The German government meanwhile is roping in private players to smoothen the operations on COVID-19 quarantine. Cases have begun to show up all around Africa, though the continent had withstood spread in January and February. 

Australia has declared that the situation there is under control. South Korea, which had seen a united fight against the epidemic is seeing progress, as it has reported under 100 cases for the third day in a row.