Commentary: Europe learns lifting COVID-19 lockdowns doesn’t come cheap

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Commentary: Europe learns lifting COVID-19 lockdowns doesn’t come cheap
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As countries around the world lift COVID-19 restrictions, France, Spain, Germany and Italy reeling from lockdowns offer interesting lessons, say ...

Governments remain cautious about moving between stages, however. Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, has spoken of the fragility of German success in managing the coronavirus and the risk of opening too quickly.

The WHO warns that countries with a high percentage of positive tests are probably missing other cases of coronavirus in the population. Britain remains in lockdown as it tries to pivot this month to a new strategy built around mass testing and tracing infected people and those they may have come into contact with.

European governments are often willing, and sometimes able, to exert more control over their health systems than the United States. People ride bicycles at dawn during the hours allowed for individual exercise, for the first time since the lockdown, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, on the outskirts of Ronda, Spain on May 2, 2020.

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