Coronavirus
outbreak
and
lockdown
have
changed
a
lot
of
things
around,
and
so
are
the
search
priorities
of
users!
It
has
been
a
month
that
lockdown
has
been
announced,
and
according
to
Yahoo,
the
Coronavirus
related
searches
have
shot
up.
Recently,
Yahoo
announced
'Search
in
the
Lockdown'
which
chronicles
and
compares
what
the
users
in
India
searched
before
and
during
the
lockdown,
shows
trends
that
are
based
on
users'
daily
search
habits
in
the
last
one
month.
As
per
the
report,
through
the
lockdown,
novel
Coronavirus-related
searches
rose
by
a
whopping
427
percent.
As
per
IANS
report,
during
pre-lockdown
phase,
actor
Priyanka
Chopra
was
the
most-searched
female
celebrity
followed
by
Katrina
Kaif
and
Deepika
Padukone.
But
things
changed
when
the
singer,
Kanika
Kapoor
tested
positive
for
COVID-19
on
her
return
from
London.
The
singer
replaced
the
other
superstars
to
become
the
most-searched
celebrity.
The
top
5
most-searched
female
celebrities
in
the
last
month
were
Kanika,
Priyanka
Chopra,
Disha
Patani,
Deepika
Padukone
and
Sara
Ali
Khan.
Post
lockdown,
Amitabh
Bachchan
and
Rajinikanth
topped
the
list
of
most-searched
male
celebrities
followed
by
Salman
Khan,
Akshay
Kumar
and
Tiger
Shroff.
After
lockdown,
Ramayan,
which
was
re-run
on
Doordarshan,
became
the
top
entertainment
search.
Amazon
Prime
Video
topped
the
list
of
top-searched
OTT
services
followed
by
Netflix,
Hotstar,
Voot
and
Zee5.
As
per
IANS
report,
"The
top
five
Covid-19
keywords
searched
were
'Covid-19
updates',
'Symptoms
of
Covid-19',
'Covid-19
treatment',
'Covid-19
death
toll'
and
'live
Covid-19
tracker.'
People
also
mass-searched
for
'lockdown
in
India,'
'vaccine
for
coronavirus,'
'social
distancing',
and
'Hydroxychloroquine
for
coronavirus'.
The
latter
is
an
anti-malarial
drug
that
the
US
President
Donald
Trump
described
as
a
"game
changer" in
the
fight
against
the
coronavirus
crisis."