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Published 16:53 16 Mar 2020 GMT
Amid the coronavirus outbreak, Arnold Schwarzenegger has taken to Instagram to urge his 20 million followers to "stay at home as much as possible".
In a video, the 72-year-old is seen feeding his ponies Whiskey and Lulu while delivering the important message.
He captioned the video: "Stay at home. Stay at home as much as possible. Listen to the experts, ignore the morons (foreheads). We will get through this together."
Check out Arnold Schwarzenegger feeding his ponies while urging people to stay indoors amid the coronavirus outbreak:
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In the clip, the Austrian-born actor tells his followers: "The important thing is that you stay at home because there’s a curfew now. No one is allowed out especially someone who is 72 years old. After 65 you’re not allowed out your house anymore in California, so you gotta stay home.
"That’s what we do. We don’t go to restaurants, we don’t go to anything like that anymore here. We just eat with Whiskey and with Lulu [his ponies] and have a good time and get entertained. Look at that beautiful smile she is. "
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"No more restaurants, forget all that. Gatherings, restaurants, gymnasiums are out the window. You stay home."
This comes after the mayor of California, Eric Garcetti, ordered the closure of bars, gyms, theaters and in-person dining in restaurants to help slow the spread of the disease.
In a report from the World Health Organization last Wednesday (11 March), WHO declared that the COVID-19 outbreak is now being officially recognized as a pandemic:
"WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction.
We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic.
Pandemic is not a word to use lightly or carelessly. It is a word that, if misused, can cause unreasonable fear, or unjustified acceptance that the fight is over, leading to unnecessary suffering and death."
At the time of writing (March 16), there have been 152,428 cases of coronavirus and 5,720 deaths from the disease worldwide.
