The Year the World Locked Down

Inside the Global Battle with Covid

De: Ramsey Coutta

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

When a mysterious new virus appeared in late 2019, few imagined the world would shut down within months. Streets fell silent. Hospitals overflowed. Borders closed. For the first time in living memory, nearly everyone on Earth faced the same invisible threat at once.

The Year the World Locked Down tells the story of how it happened — and what it did to us. From overwhelmed hospitals in Bergamo and New York, to desperate families in Guayaquil and Delhi, to leaders making impossible choices in Beijing, London, Brasília, and Washington, this book follows the pandemic as it spread, mutated, and reshaped every part of modern life.

Told with the urgency of a global thriller but grounded in real events and reporting, it captures the chaos, courage, misinformation, and hope that defined the era. It shows how the world fought back — through lockdowns and vaccines, through heroism and mistakes — and how the pandemic exposed what was already fragile: our health systems, our economies, and our trust.

This is not just the story of a virus. It’s the story of a world tested — and changed — forever.