The lock down effects over 16 million people.

In Milan, prisoners protest and set fire to a prison after learning that visits were being suspended because of the new Corona virus in Afghanistan.

The sound of explosions interrupt the swearing end of President Ashraf Ghani in Kabul.

Nearby, Abdullah Abdullah holds his own swearing in ceremony as a rival president, and in Sudan, the prime minister survives an attack on his vehicle in cartoons.