How to lift a Lockdown - why life may not return to normal
for some time
"In the early hours of 23 January, our Sky News crew was woken up to the announcement that Wuhan, the city at the centre of the initial coronavirus outbreak and where we were reporting from, would be locked down at 10am that day, writes Tom Cheshire.
Ten million people were effectively quarantined. No one in and no one out. It was an extraordinary measure, unprecedented in modern medical history, and no one knew whether it would work.
It seemed a desperate last resort then. Now, much of the world works in last resorts. As epidemic turned to pandemic, governments around the world have done the same. Countries, regions and cities have been locked down, from India to the US to Europe - and to the UK - and those lockdowns continue.
Wuhan and its people suffered terribly but they also endured. Slowly, the numbers of COVID-19 patients began to fall. Its daily cases were once in the thousands; now they are usually zero or in the single figures. As a result, restrictions are being eased and a city that has seen so much death is coming back to life.
The first lesson the world learned from China was that lockdowns work. The country is now working on the answer to a second question.
How do you lift a lockdown?"
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