It was almost impossible to kill all humans without starting the infection from Madagascar. If you started from somewhere else Madagascar always had time to close the borders.
Lo and behold: Madagascar is one of the few countries without infections in Global Cases tracker. https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/03/14/world/africa/14re...
> "To prevent the outbreak entering in Madagascar, all flights connecting Madagascar to Europe are suspended for 30 days," Madagascar President Hery Rajaonarimampianina said in a statement.
> Madagascar, one of the world's poorest nations where malnutrition is rife and outbreaks of deadly diseases are common, will also suspend air links to the nearby islands of La Reunion and Mayotte, he said.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/cruise-transatlantic-coro...
Because the story is the same all over the world. A country announces it'll close the borders in 2 days. A day after the announcement, every citizen of that country that was in COVID-19 hotspot returns to their homeland. In some cases avoiding quarantine.
A cruise with 200 people was denied port in Portugal, so the ship went to Spain, dropped all the passengers and they took busses to enter Portugal.
One of the many reasons why the border is being shut
Turns out it's true.