Essay: Exit from coronavirus lockdowns – lessons from six countries
In an article first published on The Conversation, BHASKAR CHAKRAVORTI, of Tufts University, looks at lessons learned as nations begin to ease coronavirus-related lockdown restrictions…
WHO warns against rushed end to coronavirus lockdowns; spread latest
Zurich/Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The World Health Organization warned on Wednesday that countries emerging from restrictions to halt the new coronavirus must proceed “extremely carefully” or risk a rapid rise in new cases. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said countries needed to ensure they had adequate measures to control the spread of the COVID-19 respiratory disease like tracking […]
Countries must ease lockdowns slowly, be ready for virus to jump back – WHO
Geneva, Switzerland/London, UKReuters Countries must lift lockdowns gradually, while still being “on the look-out” for COVID-19 and ready to restore restrictions if the virus jumps back, the World Health Organization said on Friday. Vulnerable people in institutions, including those in long-term care facilities, prisons and migrant dormitories, must be protected, its top emergencies expert Dr […]
Impossible dilemma? World watches Italy as businesses plead to return to work
Rome, ItalyReuters Many Italian companies and academics are pressing the government to reopen factories to prevent an economic catastrophe, as the world watches how the first Western country to impose a lockdown can extricate itself from the unprecedented measures. The same debate is being held around the globe: how long and stringently can bans to […]