As several countries prepare to ease sweeping restrictions put in place to slow the coronavirus pandemic, experts say the openings should be ...
Billions of people around the world have been ordered to stay home to slow the spread of the virus AFP/Luis ROBAYOPARIS: As several countries prepare to ease sweeping restrictions put in place to slow the coronavirus pandemic, experts say the openings should be enacted with extreme caution to avoid sparking a fresh wave of infection - and another painful lockdown.
Antoine Flahault, director of the Institute of Global Health at the University of Geneva said lockdown was"a Chinese invention"."The effectiveness of the Chinese version applied with rigor and force in Wuhan meant the least prepared countries -- most Western countries -- had no choice but to apply an adapted version when they found themselves facing the pandemic wave," he said.
The International Monetary Fund's chief economist Gita Gopinath has dubbed the crisis the"Great Lockdown" and said it is expected to be the"worst recession since the Great Depression". In the United States, which has not yet passed the peak of its epidemic, Donald Trump has already said it was time to"restart America".
France and Germany have seen this rate drop below 1.0 thanks to weeks of containment, meaning the epidemic is under control. French epidemiologist Laurent Toubiana, who was opposed to the country's lockdown, told AFP that"the exit automatically brings us back to the starting point: the situation before the confinement".The experience of South Korea has been frequently cited as an example. The country implemented mass testing, quarantined positive cases, tracked the contacts of those infected and then tested them as well.
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