Americans now COVID-19 the dispute can believe experience in Asia provides for a post-viral world in the form of a look of hope. After all, this was the area where the virus started and making it the first to recover. Unfortunately, this is not exactly what happened. Take Japan, where the beginning of April, a new rise in confirmed cases CORONA forced to declare Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a state of emergency. This in a country where masks are part of everyday life in the big cities even in normal times, and there is much greater confidence in the warnings by officials in the US The emergency declaration of a month’s Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike and governors of other prefectures allowed to take major cities urgent measures to protect the COVID-19 proliferation, as required diligent social distancing, banning large gatherings, requisition of land and buildings for hospital use and asking residents to hold at home . The prime minister’s decision was not easy. The Japanese economy is already considerable burden, especially because of the shift of the Olympic Games, the country will cost. But Abe has the same dilemma faced the now official policy in the world: how to find the most effective way to accept now a strong economic pain to a large number of saving lives and to prevent a major economic catastrophe. He presents another problem: the Japanese law is the type of block does not allow that we have seen in China. Local officials can arrest people accumulate critical supplies and take over buildings for medical purposes in other democracies, but will leave the wrong or hold collection otherwise law-abiding citizens or their homes. You just have to hope that the public takes seriously their warnings. Abe also hopes that the declaration of emergency limit for a month to limit economic losses. Only time can tell. If these measures fail, and the emergence of new cases continues, White Abe, is anger against those who called on him before and act much more energetic. A few hours after his declaration of emergency, Abe moves to stimulate the economy. Japan nearly $1 Katherine package reportedly includes more than $350 billion in new government spending. It will be enough? It ‘s too early to know. And that money will come in time for the embattled companies and families who need it most? Finally, Abe voters, as President Trump will reward his efforts. If the Japanese public believes that he acted wisely, that the Japanese economy has weathered the storm, could then call early elections this year. Japan is not the only Asian country renewed pressure is exposed. A resurgence of confirmed cases in Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan has forced more stringent standards for social distancing. On April 3, the Singapore government closed all schools and most businesses for a month. South Korea, the country “flattened the curve” as the most successful of the bubble, he has announced strict guidelines new journey. Since April 1, anyone wishing to enter the country, has a document to be signed before the flight on which obliges the passenger to a quarantine of 14 days at an establishment designated South Korean government. For all these reasons, Americans and Europeans are in Asia not to seek hope, but to handle for some insight on how best the second wave of cases. As in Asia, as elsewhere, COVID-19 yellow traffic light flashes often as finally moves from red to green. This appears in the April 20, 2020 issue of time. Photo copyright Kazuhiro Nogi AFP / Getty Images
What Japan can teach the world on pandemic
