Executives from Toyota Company stated that they will temporarily stop all production in Russia and Europe in an effort to stop coronavirus spreading.

Toyota will suspend all production in all auto plants in Russia for five days starting from Monday. They also said they will stop production in all its auto and parts factories in all European countries where they have auto plants. Everything will stop in Europe and Russia for at least until April 19.

Toyota is the world’s second-largest automaker with around 780,000 vehicles produced in Europe, which is 0.4 percent more than the previous year.

People from Toyota (Japanese largest automaker) also said today that they will halt production in their auto factory in Thailand from April 7 to April 17 and also their auto plant in Vietnam will be closed from Monday for the time being because of the spread of the coronavirus in the region.

Toyota already stopped its production in the United States, Canada, Mexico at least until April 17 and they will stop some forms of production in Japan starting from Friday because demand has declined.

On the other hand, in China, Toyota has returned production to a normal level at all auto plants. Everything goes back to normal when it comes to auto manufacturing in China.

The United States government extended all guidelines on Sunday asking people to stay at home and to respect social distancing guidelines. The experts estimated that 2.2 million people could die in the United States alone if people don’t follow all measures to contain the disease pandemic.

President Donald Trump said earlier that he hopes the whole country will get back to work until mid-April but it is clear now that this will not happen with the United States becoming the country with the most infections on the planet.

The peak, most fatalities are expected in about two weeks, therefore, the government will extend their guidelines to April 30 in an effort to slow down the spread, President Trump stated during a press conference at the White House. He also stated that by June 1 the country will be on its way to recovery.

Since March 16, the United States government gave their 15-day guidance with the goal to stop the spreading of the virus, telling people to work from home and calling the school and university professors to teach from home, and to avoid any gathering of more than 10 people.

Many states across the USA have taken tougher measures by making stay-at-home orders mandatory. By Monday, it is expected that 27 of the nation's 50 states will implement such orders in effect, affecting approximately 225 million people, or about two-thirds of the United States population.

The number of infections in America is increasing rapidly day by day from earlier this month, the United States now has 144,103 cases, 2,580 deaths and 4,865 people recovered so far.

In the world: 739,223 cases, 35,103 deaths, 164,052 people recovered so far.