Are there exit strategies for coronavirus?

Business Daily

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News, Business

4.4 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

As many countries and cities around the western world go into lockdown, China is beginning to ease restrictions, claiming several days with no new domestic cases of coronavirus. But people have their doubts whether this is true, as the BBC’s Kerry Allen explains. Meanwhile, president Trump wants to ease restrictions as well, hoping for an Easter end date to the lockdown. Dr. Susy Hota, Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control at the University Health Network in Toronto, explains why it might not pan out that way. But are we looking for exits too early? Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, has an ear to the conflicting priorities governments are dealing with.

(Picture: Passengers reappear at Wuhan Railway Station on March 24, 2020. Picture credit: Getty Images)

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0:00.0	Hello there, I'm Ed Butler.
0:02.8	Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.
0:05.5	Coming up, the US and India head into lockdown, just as China begins to come out of it.
0:11.2	What is the plan long term for beating COVID-19?
0:14.7	We do know that sometimes, as you've relieved these measures, there may be a second wave.
0:20.8	So everything we're doing is aiming at having our health systems actually be able to cope with
0:25.0	what we have to deal with in these early phases.
0:27.5	Well, to some global leaders, that sounds just like crisis management.
0:31.3	They're asking, where's the exit?
0:33.3	You're seeing a fight between the epidemiologists who are saying,
0:37.4	we've got to get this under control
0:38.8	and the markets and economy types who are saying the economy is in freefall, you can't shut it down,
0:45.0	you're going to have a hard time getting reelected if you hit a depression.
0:49.1	That's all coming up on Business Daily from the BBC.
0:55.5	Yep, we're seeing countries and cities in the Western world and in South Asia going
1:00.2	into lockdown. China and other East Asian economies, though, are easing some of their
1:05.5	restrictions. Residents cheered as Hubei formally lifted restrictions on movement today.
1:11.2	On Monday, the BBC spoke to Beijing residents
1:13.4	enjoying early signs of spring renewal in the city.
1:19.5	It's so long since I've been out, and the air is nice and fresh.
1:23.9	It's better than at home.
1:25.4	To see everyone bring out their kids makes you feel good.
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