{"id":156941,"date":"2020-03-30T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=156941"},"modified":"2020-12-02T10:20:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T10:20:45","slug":"china-shows-way-to-ease-lockdowns-before-vaccine-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/03\/china-shows-way-to-ease-lockdowns-before-vaccine-says-report\/","title":{"rendered":"China Shows Way to Ease Lockdowns before Vaccine, Says Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content__headline-standfirst-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"tonal__standfirst u-cf\">\n<div class=\"content__standfirst\" data-link-name=\"standfirst\" data-component=\"standfirst\">\n<blockquote><p><em>UK Experts Say Easing Physical Distancing Would Depend on Rigorous Testing and Isolation<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"in standfirst link\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"in standfirst link\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content__meta-container js-content-meta u-cf\n    \"><\/p>\n<div class=\"meta__contact-wrap\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure id=\"img-1\" class=\"media-primary media-content ()  \" data-component=\"image\" data-media-id=\"a3e99688105ac9ebee700f5d554ce3306fda974f\">\n<div class=\"u-responsive-ratio\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a3e99688105ac9ebee700f5d554ce3306fda974f\/0_233_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=620&amp;quality=45&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=5010c17cc26f3feb8de9f8b888b3752d 1240w\" media=\"(min-width: 980px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 980px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)\" 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responsive-img aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a3e99688105ac9ebee700f5d554ce3306fda974f\/0_233_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=300&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6960702dd754af51b4520acecb9d40c3\" alt=\"Residents bid farewell to a medical team from Guizhou province leaving Wuhan on 25 March.\" \/> <\/picture><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<header class=\"content__head content__head--article tonal__head tonal__head--tone-news\">\n<figure id=\"img-1\" class=\"media-primary media-content ()  \" data-component=\"image\" data-media-id=\"a3e99688105ac9ebee700f5d554ce3306fda974f\"><figcaption class=\"caption caption--main caption--img\">Residents bid farewell to a medical team from Guizhou province leaving Wuhan on 25 March. Photograph: China Daily\/Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"content__article-body from-content-api js-article__body\" data-test-id=\"article-review-body\">\n<p><em>25 Mar 2020 &#8211; <\/em>China\u2019s tough lockdown and physical distancing measures in Wuhan and other provinces appear to have successfully ended new locally transmitted coronavirus infections and may chart a route back to normal life, according to a report from Imperial College London.<\/p>\n<p>The<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/mrc-global-infectious-disease-analysis\/news--wuhan-coronavirus\/\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"in body link\"> report<\/a>, from Prof Neil Ferguson and his team, who have been the main modellers of the epidemic for the UK and other governments, suggests it is possible to lift the physical distancing restrictions, as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/23\/wuhan-eases-coronavirus-lockdown-as-restrictions-intensify-outside-china\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"in body link\">China has begun to do<\/a>, without a resurgence of the epidemic.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"element element-rich-link element--thumbnail element-rich-link--upgraded\" data-component=\"rich-link\" data-link-name=\"rich-link-1 | 1\">\n<div class=\"rich-link tone-news--item rich-link--pillar-news\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__container\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__header\">\u201cAt this difficult time, these results suggest that, after containment, a carefully managed and monitored relaxation of effective large-scale lockdowns may be possible even before an effective vaccine is available,\u201d said Prof Christl Donnelly, of Imperial and Oxford Universities, one of the team.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ferguson said their analysis \u201cprovides some hope for countries currently in various levels of lockdown that once case numbers are brought to low levels, it might be possible to relax social distancing \u2013 provided equal measures to limit the risk of the resurgence of transmission are introduced\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed, however, that relaxing the lockdown policies would depend on \u201crapid and ubiquitous testing and rigorous case and contact isolation policies\u201d. That would mean testing everyone with symptoms and following up and isolating their contacts, in order to stamp out any further flare-ups of infection.<\/p>\n<p>The report says low-level economic activity has started to resume in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">China<\/a> and Hong Kong without significant outbreaks. The analysis shows that \u201cintermediate levels of local activity can be maintained while avoiding a large outbreak\u201d, the report says.<\/p>\n<p>The findings do not rule out further epidemics in China, nor estimate what level of normal life is safe. \u201cHowever, they do suggest that after very intense social distancing which resulted in containment, China has successfully exited their stringent social distancing policy to some degree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report adds: \u201cGlobally, China is at a more advanced stage of the pandemic. Policies implemented to reduce the spread of Covid-19 in China and the exiting strategies that followed can inform decision-making processes for countries once containment is achieved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/25\/china-shows-way-to-ease-lockdowns-before-vaccine-ready-suggests-report-imperial-college\" >Go to Original &#8211; theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 Mar 2020 &#8211; UK Experts Say Easing Physical Distancing Would Depend on Rigorous Testing and Isolation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":153167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2236],"tags":[271,1879,1829,289,744,1698,710,1864,1102,304,1447,1880,339,124,1836,75],"class_list":["post-156941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid19-coronavirus","tag-community","tag-compassion","tag-coronavirus","tag-economy","tag-empathy","tag-epidemics","tag-health","tag-pandemic","tag-public-health","tag-science","tag-science-and-medicine","tag-sharing","tag-trade","tag-united-nations","tag-who","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}