After weeks of social and economic isolation, political leaders and citizens around the world are eager to reemerge from their coronavirus-fueled lockdowns. The question is, how? Here's what steps countries are taking to enable economic re-opening:
A man wearing a mask walks his dog in Brooklyn Bridge Park on Tuesday during the coronavirus pandemic in New York. | Mark Lennihan/AP Photolooking at the health and economic impacts of the pandemic, but lacks a single national plan for testing or re-opening the economy .
The country's most populous state, California, will condition its gradual re-opening on a series of public health benchmarks and the preparedness of schools and businesses,. New York is creating its own coronavirus test, with plans to manufacture up to 50,000 tests per week, after making widespread testing availability a precondition of its re-opening.
Canada’s Parliament is operating in a skeleton form — a representative sample of just 32 members — and the country is maintaining restrictions on international arrivals and inter-province travel. Mayors of major cities like Montreal have, however, pivoted from talk of mass quarantine toFurther south, Argentina’s borders have been closed since March 15 and non-resident foreigners remain banned from Brazil until April 30.
African governments took early preventative action: most stopped international flights beginning in mid-March and restricted gatherings before their countries experienced a Covid-19 death. Those moves haven't received unanimous support, however. South Africa’s lockdown, which the government extended until the end of April, isNigeria, Africa’s most populous country, has imposed a lockdown in three key states — Lagos, Abuja and Ogun — until at least April 27, and suspended rail services.The exception is Iran, which reports the region’s worst outbreak with 3,600 reported deaths and 73,000 infections.
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