COV!D-19/ “The World Should Quarantine For A Week Every Year To Remember This Time- Idris Elba

Idrissa Akuna Elba OBE, an English actor, and Disc Jockey, has suggested that, once the COVID-19 pandemic is over, the world should take a week of quarantine every year as way of remembering the difficulties and petrifying moments the virus put the world through.

Speaking about the virus and recovery, Elba – who also took part in the global One World: Together At Home event on Saturday – told the Associated Press their cases had been “very mild”. On lockdown, he said: “I think that the world should take a week of quarantine every year just to remember this time. Remember each other. I really do.”

The star, who along his wife Sabrina Dhowre Elba recovered after contracting coronavirus said, it had been a “scary” time. As new UN Goodwill Ambassadors, the couple have joined forces with the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to launch a $40m (£32m) fund to support rural farmers trying to cope with the COVID-19 outbreak.

He added, “I think it’s… other species use it. It’s called hibernation. But it does remind you that the world doesn’t tick on your time.” The British actor, star of series including The Wire and Luther, said he and his wife were lucky not to suffer serious symptoms of the virus after testing positive in March.

“It’s been about six weeks from the beginning to this point right now for us, where it’s essentially our lives turned around,” he said. “Definitely scary and unsettling and nervous. And I think that’s been like a real collected world experience. “You know, everyone’s sort of feeling the way we have been feeling, but it has definitely been sort of just a complete upheaval.”

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