When observing the mundane chart you should start with the ascendant, and then observe what is going on through each of the houses.
Each country will be feeling the affects differently, as each handle the crisis in different ways, each having a different chart depicting them.
The ascendant is said to control the amount of time said issues will last. Fixed signs being the longest and cardinal the shortest. With covid being worldwide, it is hard to determine time as there is no way to achieve an accurate world chart.
But looking at individual nations or cities charts, it is possible to observe all of the areas that are affected by Covid in each individual country’s or cities chart.
The most reliable mundane technique for countries is to cast an Aries Ingress chart for the year of founding for that country and the rising sign on the ingress represents the country.
The US was founded in 1781. It is a matter of historical fact and record that nothing happened on July 4th 1776 nor could it have happened. The only two copies of the Declaration of Independence that ever existed were both signed on August 2nd.
In 1945, Congress was made aware of the truth and debated changing Independence Day from July 4th to August 2nd but chose not to do that for reasons of political propaganda. The war in Germany had just ended and Americans wanted to bring the boys back home and the prospect of invading Japan and having the war last another 1-2 years just didn't sit well with most Americans. Congress needed the support of the people and believed that celebrating the holiday sooner rather than later in order to rouse the patriotism of Americans would sway public opinion.
The correct chart then would be for August 2nd, 1776 but that chart is tantamount to a conception chart. Or a chart cast for the date/time of someone's engagement.
A conception chart answers one and only one question and that is whether a child conceived will be born or not. Once the end is known, that chart is no longer valid.
An engagement chart is no different. It answers one and only one question and that is whether or not a couple will actually tie the knot. Once the end is known, the chart is no longer valid.
A chart cast for an independence declaration by any group or ethnic group or nation is no different. It answers one and only one question and that is whether or not the bid for independence is successful or fails.
Once the bid for independence is concluded with either a success or a fail that chart is no longer valid for anything.
So even if you cast a chart for August 2nd, 1776 and you rectified it and you should be able to do rectify it since the end is clearly known with the signing of a treaty between England and the States and ratified/adopted in accordance with the Articles of Confederation, then that chart is no longer valid.
This chart clearly shows the bid for independence by Palestine to be DOA aka Dead on Arrival.
That much is clear due to the ruler of the 8th place being in the 1st place. Palestine is indirectly the cause of is own failure to achieve independence.
The Aries Mars in the 7th place square a 4th place Capricorn Saturn and opposing the 1st place ruler Venus proves conclusively that the enemy or enemies of Palestine will be overwhelmingly victorious.
Palestine never had a chance. Look, ma, no Pluto!
Ptolemy says the US is Sagittarius. That's because both capitols in Philadelphia and Washington are in the 6th zone which is Sagittarius.
Ptolemy says Britain is Aries because it's in 7th zone and Ukraine is Aquarius but I reject both of those on astrological principles and not whimsical knee-jerk emotionally romantic fantasies like Campion and others do.
I use 1066 for Britain instead of 925 but I'm not a hypocrite. What happened in 1066 is a foreign power, a foreign nation, a foreign ethnic group, a foreign culture came to Britain and set up shop. This foreign power became the government. This foreign power imposed its language, its legal system and is culture on the people. This foreign power also booted most of the English and Anglo-Saxon lords and replaced them with Norman French vassals. That isn't just lipstick on a pig. Those are radical changes that had a long-lasting permanent effect.
So you can use Noon on December 25, 1066 or take Scorpio from the 1066 Aries Ingress to represent Britain. That Britain changed its name, changed constitutions, changed types of government (from monarchy to constitutional monarchy for instance), gained territory, gained colonies, lost territory, lost colonies doesn't matter. It's 1066.
Ukraine was Aquarius right up until Vikings came down the river and set up the Kiev Dynasty (and they sailed down another river and set up the Moscow Dynasty). Vikings coming from Moscow to Kiev doesn't change anything and we know that because you don't throw out people's birth charts and cast new ones because they got married or divorced. Astrological principles.
Like an infant, the US drew its first breath on or about 9:00 am on March 2nd, 1781. I could waste time trying to rectify the chart or I could cast Aries Ingress for that year and not surprisingly it is Sagittarius. Because it is, we cast the Mars/Saturn conjunction in Sagittarius which happens every 30 years roughly. For Britain, you'd do Mars/Saturn in Scorpio.
We get this:
Mars/Saturn at Sagittarius 8° is an indicator of plague not because it's at that degree but because it's at that degree and in the 4th place and the ruler of the 7th is in the 1st place and being in the 4th place means Mars rules the 8th and both being in opposition to Fortune.
The government in mundane is represented by Saturn, the 10th place ruler and Sun. When you profect the chart to April 26, 2020 Mars/Saturn are in the 8th place at Aries 0° and STUPID-19 ramps up and States start initiating lock-downs. Note that puts Capricorn in the 9th and Aquarius on the 10th ruled by 8th place Saturn.
The 9th place is where you find actions by government and/or civil authorities, specifically crack-downs. Bonatti says to pay particular attention to Saturn in the 9th or ruling the 9th because government crack-downs can range from putting down civil disturbances violent or not to ending mass strikes to economic measures such as wage and price freezes, rationing, or other actions due to food shortages, drought, war and such to cracking down on specific groups causing the government angst.
For purposes of timing, in January 2020 Saturn and Sun are both in Capricorn and then Sun exits into Aquarius while Mars enters Capricorn and there's where you'd see the lock-downs actually starting. I should also mention the waning out of sect bad Moon ruling the chart's 9th place ends up by profection in the 1st place.
Mars/Saturn in the last 20° of Sagittarius (when other indicators are present) shows pestilence which is similar to but not the same thing as plague. One reason the Black Death lasted so long is because it was pestilence and not plague so the difference is not so subtle as some would believe.
Of the mutable signs Sagittarius is the most mutable so you'd expect a quick/sudden change which is what we saw when STUPID-19 morphed into less virulent forms.
This chart also has a stationary Mercury and where you find stationary stars they normally do not portend good.
The Aries Ingress chart is not the correct technique. That's a corruption due to transmission errors. You should be casting the New Moon chart that occurs just prior to the ingress unless a star goes stationary between the lunation and the ingress and then you cast a chart for the date/time when the star goes on station.