One year on from the first lockdown The Sun explores how and why the world locked down, and whether restrictions will be here to stay post the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mass-scale lockdowns were near unprecedented in the fight against pandemics in human history. Yet the world near-universally took up this strategy to tackle coronavirus in a matter of weeks; it didn’t matter if you lived in a western democracy, or in a communist dictatorship, countries swiftly shut down their entire economies, borders and societies. So how and why did the world lockdown and will they be used in the future?

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