Covid-19: Learn from other countries about easing lockdown, researchers urge
@article{Griffin2020Covid19LF, title={Covid-19: Learn from other countries about easing lockdown, researchers urge}, author={Shaun T. Griffin}, journal={BMJ}, year={2020}, volume={370} }
The authors of a new review of international experiences of easing lockdown during the covid-19 pandemic are urging governments to consider a “zero-covid-19” strategy to eliminate domestic transmission, among other measures.1
For their analysis in the Lancet the authors reviewed strategies for easing restrictions in nine high income countries: Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, and the UK.
They proposed five factors to consider when developing…
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