The measures imposed were sweeping and varied. In one state, police officers stopped motorists and demanded to know why they were outside. Rule-breakers were threatened with public shaming and even being shot.

And anxiety is running high: Shelves in food stores and pharmacies have been emptied. Many Indians live hand to mouth, and their families will struggle to eat. In some places, doctors have been run out of their homes, shunned as carriers of the virus.

Context: India still has only 600 confirmed infections, but the country’s high population density and weak health care system made experts nervous.

Here are the latest updates and maps of the outbreak. We’ve also compiled a daily tracker that shows the virus’s trajectories by country and state.

In other developments:

Prince Charles has the virus. So do 8,076 other people in Britain as of Wednesday afternoon. He hasn’t seen his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, since March 12, before he would have been infectious, palace officials said.

The decision to postpone the Tokyo Olympics until next summer poses a lot of challenges for Japan — from where to store the Olympic flame to how the country can hope to recoup its $10 billion investment.

About 150,000 crew members aboard commercial ships worldwide are being forced to keep working to deliver gas, food and medicine. The seafarers say they would prefer to return home, but no port will let them disembark.

Most Latin American leaders reacted quickly to the coronavirus, shutting down borders and enforcing quarantines early. But Brazil and Mexico have dismissed fears, an approach that could create new hot spots.

Markets: U.S. stocks climbed on Wednesday, adding to Tuesday’s surge, as investors sized up the government’s rescue package. Asian and European markets closed higher.