What needs to be finished before a lockdowns can be lifted?
The Chinese city of Wuhan, once a epicenter of a coronavirus outbreak, gradually began to lift a lockdown on Apr 8.
It was a pointer of wish to many around a universe that in a city where a pestilence began, life was solemnly returning to normal. But what has to occur before countries can demeanour to palliate restrictions on movements, but opening a doorway to a resurgence of infections?
Is a unchanging tumble in new cases enough? Or does there need to be a fast enlargement in contrast capabilities and hit tracing?
To assistance answer these questions, Don’t Touch Your Face hosts James Palmer and Amy Mackinnon are assimilated by NPR’s Beijing match Emily Feng, who was in Wuhan a day a lockdown was eased, and Wafaa El-Sadr, a executive of a International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs during Columbia University and a highbrow of epidemiology and medicine during a Columbia Mailman School of Public Health.