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More than a third of the world population was confined this Wednesday, after India added to the isolation to stop the spread of the coronavirus, which in Spain has already exceeded the death rate of China, the origin of the pandemic.

While the United States Senate agreed with the White House on a gigantic package of aid for two trillion dollars, which made the world markets react, Spain registered in one day 738 deaths and accumulated 3,434 deaths, second only to Italy.

 More than half of the deaths (53%) are concentrated in the Madrid region, the most affected by the epidemic. The situation in the Spanish capital has deteriorated so much that an ice rink was transformed into a morgue and a field hospital has been installed in a congress hall.

With the confinement of India, the second country with the largest population in the world, there are already close to 3,000 million people cloistered at home, according to a count from an AFP database.

In the Asian giant, the constant bustle has mutated into an unreal calm with frozen planes and trains, empty streets, regions that closed borders and a slogan repeated all the time: "Stay at home."

But in the calm there are also outbreaks of paranoia. Villages protected with barricades, local policemen authorized to shoot those who violate the confinement, or red signs posted on the doors of those who have traveled abroad.

The spread of the pandemic led Russian President Vladimir Putin - in his last term under the current legal framework - to postpone the vote on his constitutional reform without date and to declare work leave next week.