And ‘early morning of Shanghai Westbund and the lawn of the harbor area is filled with picnics to enjoy the annual cherry blossom flowers. Parents pushing strollers through carpets of flowers, while students on the lawn proportion bottle of chilled sparkling wine strained. After three months of rigorous stay-at-home for COVID 19-pandemic orders, residents of the largest cities in China have emerged blinking into the light. “It ‘s crazy, have never been fully there as here,” says Sally Zhou like coffee with its code French Bulldog “People are desperately looking to get outside and have fun.” Even as COVID-19. performance gaps in the world, has never replicated the scope and intensity of the unprecedented blockade Chinese. the epicenter of the outbreak, Wuhan, was sealed and placed in other quarantined city. No. 2 economy in the world completely frozen. These victims have now China allows new cases to slow down to a trickle. Wuhan drained the last of his crown patients hospitalized on 27 April, and although many are skeptical the government reported number of cases, the authorities clearly feel safe enough to allow certain schools and companies in China to reopen. Revenues from major online retailers grew by 10% on the year in March, according to the Ministry of Commerce of China, the T EIL in response to a flood of cheap offers to boost demand develops. The April 22, said the president Xi Jinping imperative of China has recommended to start new activities to a halt. “Great progress in history have after the occurrence of major disasters,” he said. For much of the world, the disaster is not yet complete, at least three million cases and more than 200,000 people in more than 200 countries and territories in late April. In February the world, such as China he marveled is thrown temporary hospitals in Wuhan; Now, sit similar facilities in London, the biggest convention center in Central Park in New York City. Along rigorous medical masks to protect against infection in Asia, they are now worn by most outside Venturing in much of the Western world. The new hot spots of the virus were armed with defenses in Asia forefront: the strong trident social distancing, widespread testing and protection of the front vorderster of health professionals. The crown is far from being defeated, but in many places, the initial increase in cases has decreased, and become focused on the fate of the world economy. The IMF estimated global GDP by 3% this year will decline and that decline may be continued in 2021, which could lead to the Great Depression in the deepest dive. The US economy shrank by 4.8% in the first quarter and J. P. Morgan expects a contraction of 40% in the second. The number of Americans claiming unemployment is now 22 million. With statistics like these, the unanimous feeling that the treatment may do more harm than the disease. Protests erupted in the United States against blocking measures that are already being rolled back in states like Georgia, Montana and Tennessee. But health officials warn that the action is likely too quickly easing recovery W, where a resurgence of cases leads to a second economic decline after the first. There is no textbook for Lockdown repeal of success. But many East Asian countries are more advanced in the game. How they fare offers valuable lessons for the efforts of public health and the balance of economic recovery. It was about 16:00 on March 7 as Park Cheol Hong, 42, a call from his local health authorities in South Korea announced to get that a colleague had tested positive in his office for COVID-19 immediately pulled a mask surgical and went to Sejong City Public Health Center. After filling out the registration forms, Hazmat eligible employees conducted a test of COVID-19 through a slot in his car window. After that, officials sprayed disinfectant on his car outside the park and went straight home to stay indoors to obey strict instructions to avoid contact with humans. “When I woke up the next morning I got a text message that I tested negative,” says TIME. the crown burst Earlier, South Korea had been caught off guard; a slow initial rate of infection in mid-February metastasizes quickly. But unlike the first case confirmed their COVID-19, a day after South Korea, a robust response of Public Health reported 11,000 cases require the United States. Compared to the US, South Korea on a per capita three times tested many citizens. The ability to test and tracks each infection and their contacts one of the six WHO conditions should first can not be met every company reopened and shows South Korea an autocratic system like China should not introduce this type of expansive BE graduate. Until April 24, more than 589,000 Koreans had in the same way Hong Cheol Park, tested to a large extent to the drive-through and walk-through structures that delivered quick results. The government has provided free applications for smartphones that sent the emergency SMS notification of infection peaks in the neighborhood, and updated according to national and local government websites cases. Infections with only mild symptoms were treated in temporary structures on acute hospitals to focus. As a result, South Korea successfully flattened the curve in 20 days without draconian restrictions extremes of freedom or movement. “The faster we find the contacts, the better we are able to contain the further spread of the virus,” South Korean Health and Welfare Minister Park Neung-hoo tells TIME. However, he adds, “to find a midpoint between economic activity and an outbreak has indeed a difficult balance.” Swift, decisive action is diminished without a doubt the economic success of South Korea (although the economy of 1.4% in the first quarter year fell) must bear. Park, the health minister said the test results to arrive within minutes, not days, they are “critical” for effective contact tracing. Then the anonymous GPS data from an infected person’s cell phone alarm can automatically be used by SMS, to let the people who had just been in the same room to take the test. use other methods to keep track of interviews, surveillance cameras and credit card data of infected people. Hong Kong and Taiwan have enjoyed similar success. USA misplaced follow. For a problem with the power and capacity of the test kit, it usually means several days for the results, and this delay increases exponentially increases the potential for infected people to expose others. Second, there’s just say some 2,200 tracers professional contact in the United States and health experts are 100,000 more urgent need. In China some 9,000 contacts tracer was used in Wuhan alone. There are also privacy issues; Americans generally do not want their telecom companies to share their GPS data with the authorities, even if they are anonymous and used to combat an extraordinary health crisis. Apple and Google currently collaborating on a question that the spatial data using the contact lookup, but they insist, to facilitate voluntary opt-in, self-reporting. And the application may not be ready for weeks, “It ‘s very, very difficult, people decide to get into something,” said Kai-Fu Lee, a venture capitalist; former Google, Microsoft and Apple executive; and author of AI superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the new world order. “This raises the question of which is more important.” To use the privacy or during national emergencies pandemic data in an anonymous way limited to public health, the Taiwan government has made an initial choice. The island of 23 million realized it was extremely vulnerable to its particular location, only 80 miles from mainland China, where 850,000 of its citizens live and another 400,000 jobs. But in addition to early diagnosis and detection, emergency and activated the smartphone location tracking of “electronic fence” for people to form quarantined, imposing steep penalties if they leave the house. Thanks to these precautions, Taiwan has fewer than 500 cases had been. But it also may prove fragile recoveries effectively staged. Singapore, a city-rich state of 5.6 million, was initially praised by the WHO for its widespread testing and comprehensive monitoring of close contacts. Singapore requisitioned 7,500 hotel rooms newcomers are quarantined, including some in the legendary colonial Raffles Hotel. Sure, the menu of the meals in the room were taboo-simple service were provided instead, but picked up the state nor the trays on board. On March 23, the island has enabled schools to reopen, certainly had the virus under control. However, it turned out that the authorities had paid little attention to Singapore million or so migrant workers with low incomes, and for all the COVID-19 time was in its narrow dormitories-the biggest of which house up to 25,000 workers in full bloom. jumped more than a week for the April issue of cases by over 250% to more than 10,000, the highest response in Southeast Asia. Ripon Chowdhury, 31, a shipyard worker from Bangladesh who has lived in Singapore for 10 years, was when the virus breaks in a room with 15 others for his community. “It ‘s just too crowded,” he says. “When a person gets, then all of us, because we are a toilet, shower and kitchen to share.” Singapore shows that any responses to this indiscriminate virus must be global. The low-income Americans who can not work from home, comprehensive health insurance demise have proved particularly vulnerable, caught the elderly in nursing homes. But the virus can not be banished from society from Prioritize young and affluent. In Singapore, as the United States, rich and poor, we take the same public transport, using the same route Apps, chasing the same shopping centers. “The virus does not respect the Community” barriers, says Christine Pelly, a member of the Singapore Count board of transient workers Too, a nongovernmental organization. “We have been many years of [low-income] workers. We should be a bit ‘more closely for their own good.” Singapore is not the only Asian nation to have suffered a “second wave.” Japan has been hit one of the first nations, not least south of Tokyo anchored because of the Diamond Princess cruise ship defeated. But early on, it was actually that was hit worst northernmost island of Hokkaido Japan. Home to 4% of the population, the province is about the size of Maine had a third of Japanese 206 cases at the end of February, mainly because of Chinese visitors to the Sapporo Snow Festival. The state of emergency was declared on February 28, closed schools and ordered residents to stay at home. But as the cases in urban areas like Tokyo as mushrooms and fell in Hokkaido, the authorities of ‘island economic toll grew concerned. Kazushi Monji, Mayor of Kutchan, about 50 miles from Sapporo, says the stopping time had a “serious impact” on the local economy flush with restaurants, hotel bookings canceled and virtually no new bookings. On 19 March, Hokkaido lifted the state of emergency after only three weeks. “The people of Hokkaido were so happy, relaxed and easier to get around, go for drinks, attending business meeting,” says Dr. Kiyoshi Nagase, president of the Hokkaido Medical Association, which helped coordinate the local response COVID- 19. Quickly, the situation spiral with a flood of new infections. On April 12, it was forced through a second state of emergency. “I immediately regret,” says Nagase. “We should not have raised the first [order].” For the chef Koji Yorozuya whose parents started before Wafuchubo Mikami Izakaya in Otaru, northern Hokkaido, 20, are the Lockdown was “the worst crisis in the history of our restaurant.” Normally it would have all 40 seats are full to enjoy with customers sake warm next to dishes of sashimi, tempura and skewers of grilled fish. But health regulations forced him to close shop, and he now serves only taxi deliveries. “Honestly, I want the restrictions lifted as soon as possible because I am afraid to lose my restaurant,” he says. “But in terms of public health, I’m scared too. I do not know what the right answer is.” As shown in Hokkaido or a province that can their infection rate with alarming ease exceeded relapse. Kazuto Suzuki, Associate Dean of international politics at the University of Hokkaido, says his province Experience shows that piecemeal opening of the US United States is “very dangerous … even if you do not control the first wave, you can not relax”. In Texas it has already opened once again the state parks, incorporates the non-essential operations. On April 24th, salons Oklahoma nails, spas, barber shops and Pet Groomers had to resume work permits. Georgia gyms, bowling alleys and tattoo shops torn their doors on the same day. “I’d like everything is open,” said the mayor of Las Vegas Carolyn Goodman CNN recently. But some US measures are a serious threat to the rest of the US pose, the whole world on fire with Corona, “says Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Research on infections and Policy at the University of Minnesota and co-author of a mortal enemy: our war against the deadly germs. “Thus, all 50 states help each other. We are only as strong as our weakest link. “The question has to answer for each country, which sees recovery in a post-Crown May world. New Zealand has had in winning the extraordinary success virus, partly as a result of isolation and low population density, but also because it introduced strict measures to block and all but closed their borders. reinfection Now every day in the single digits down and that it is ready to completely banish the virus. prohibiting all foreign trusts with disastrous consequences for rural tourism first economy is. more than 2,019 international tourists spent in New Zealand just over $10 billion: the sector employs 8.4% of the labor force. All this is now evaporated. “it can survive the economy without international tourism, but not as we know, “said Brad Olsen, senior economist at the New Zealand Infometrics consulting firm. economic powers are no less at risk. China’s economy has shrunk by 6.8% in the first quarter of 2020. Although the recovery in domestic demand now, China’s commitment in the global market will take the pain a bit ‘medium-term and unpredictable consequences. The lack of demand for goods seized by the Americans in their homes, for example, means Chinese factories with reduced running skills, cut energy demand, $0 Crude oil prices down to help. After the financial crisis of 2008 that affected China in his recovery through the infrastructure. And ‘it plowed $586 billion dollars in government projects, such as highways, subways and airports and concrete poured from 2011 to 2013 when the United States throughout the 20th century used to. One result is that the spending binge was rising public debt, but also millions of jobs in a short time and a better basis has been found to work for any company in China. Beijing now seems reluctant to repeat this performance, but it might work the United States for those who focused on injecting liquidity into the bond markets so far, to make grants to small businesses and send $1,200 checks to individuals for. Analysts say the US spends about $4.5 Katherine 2025 has its creaking roads, railways and airports to fix and upgrade to next-generation technology, such as 5G. Economists say infrastructure is an equalizer that all companies authorized to-big and small, and should have priority again about the rescue lender once. It ‘too early, but it is already clear that a legacy of the crown will be an evolving economic landscape. Nearly half a million businesses have gone bankrupt in China of ‘year in the first quarter. How many American companies depend on decisions it folds today, from officials and from people anxious for answers. The only thing worse than behind closed doors should be a public scared to go through the open ones. -With reporting Stephen Kim / SEOUL; ABIGAIL LEONARD / TOKYO; AMY GUNIA and Hillary LEUNG / HONG KONG Image copyright David Chang EPA EFE / Shutterstock
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