Lockdown orders prompted by the spread of COVID-19 helped prevent roughly 60 million infections in the United States and 285 million in China, and they averted approximately 3.1 million deaths across Europe. AsiaNewsNetwork
On Tuesday, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy lifted a stay-at-home order that had been in place since March 21. Outdoor dining and indoor nonessential retail will be able to resume Monday as New Jersey enters stage two of reopening. Barber shops and salons will be allowed to open June 22, followed by personal care, gyms and fitness centers “as the state progresses”, according to Murphy’s new order.
The United Nations agency responded one day after a top WHO expert, Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, said transmission of the coronavirus by people who don’t have symptoms is “very rare”, but then said Tuesday it was a “misunderstanding” to say asymptomatic transmission is rare globally. The two reports used completely different methods to reach similar conclusions. They suggest that the aggressive and unprecedented shutdowns, which caused massive economic disruptions and job losses, were effective at halting the exponential spread of COVID-19.In discussing their findings online Monday with reporters, leaders of the two research teams said challenges existed in crafting their models and thus there are uncertainties in the final estimates.
The study said that emergency COVID-19 policies prevented or delayed roughly 530 million total coronavirus infections across all six countries. The researchers didn’t estimate how many deaths might have been prevented. The second study, published by epidemiologists at Imperial, examined deaths across 11 European countries. It said that lockdown orders and school closures in response to the pandemic may have averted about 3.1 million deaths through early May in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.
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