What do you get when you combine a billion people under coronavirus lockdown with an unprecedented range of cheap or free software tools to make and record music, and shoot and edit video?

You get a welcome relief from the dismal drumbeat of deaths and infections with an epidemic of hilarious and quite brilliant coronavirus-themed song parodies. Here are five to help you quench your querulous quarantine quest for a belly-laugh.

No. 5: Nick Savino’s version of MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This” was made entirely with health products he stocked up on.

No. 4: Randy Rainbow has reworked Julie Andrews’ “A Spoonful of Sugar” in honour of Donald Trump.

No. 3: Whodathunk a Lady Gaga song was the perfect way to send an antiviral message?

No. 2: With a disco light ordered from Amazon, you’ll stay fit too.

No. 1: It was a feverishly hard decision, but this mutation of a Queen classic was always destined to, umm, go viral.

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