Summary
Countries in Europe are planning to scale back lockdown measures and reopen their economies. But what will the new normal look like? Ed Butler speaks to the BBC's China media analyst Kerry Allen about the experience of Hubei province in China, which ended its lockdown earlier this month, and to Markus Dulle, owner of several DIY stores in Austria, where some shops have begun trading again after a month of shutdown. Experts agree that a programme of testing for the coronavirus is needed before lockdown measures are scaled back - Oxford University economist Daniel Susskind explains why selecting specific groups of people would be more effective than testing everybody at random. And Michel Goldman, professor of immunology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, explains why a return to 'normal' could take generations.
(Photo: A staff member hands out masks at a reopened DIY store in Austria, Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Linda. And I'm Mercy. And we're the presenters of Parentland and the BBC World Service, the podcast for anyone interested in raising children. Before you listen to your chosen podcast, we want to let you know that Parent Land is back. To help answer any questions you have about parenting during the pandemic. From Delhi to Dakar, Soweta to Shanghai, if you have questions about staying healthy, |
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| 0:36.3 | Hello, I'm Ed Butler. |
| 0:38.0 | Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:41.1 | For those of us, now under lockdown, what's life going to be like when we emerge from |
| 0:46.3 | it? |
| 0:46.8 | The vision from those who have in China. |
| 0:49.5 | When people are going out, they're getting used to seeing hand sanitizer in shopping |
| 0:53.6 | centres, for example. |
| 0:54.8 | But it's still very clear that people are really nervous about going back onto the street in general. |
| 1:00.3 | Considering coronavirus exit strategies today, when will normal service be resumed? |
| 1:05.4 | I think that for, I would say, one or two generations, we will have to learn to do things differently, |
| 1:13.9 | to behave differently, and how we organise our lives differently. That's for sure. |
| 1:19.8 | The new normal. That's Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 1:38.2 | I mean, at the stroke of midnight, when Wuhan came out of lockdown, there was this striking footage of the clock chiming midnight, people cheering. |
| 1:42.5 | The BBC's China media analyst Kerry Allen. |
| 1:44.3 | And people were seeing at the time this huge, full moon, |
| 1:48.1 | and that became a really powerful symbol. |
| 1:50.2 | People were hanging out of their windows, taking pictures of the moon. |
| 1:53.4 | And this was a way of kind of showing the country coming back together. |
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