U.K. officials are considering an exit strategy from the coronavirus lockdown that would allow young people to be the first to resume their ordinary lives.
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published Monday by scientists at Warwick Business School, that suggested "releasing" citizens aged between 20 to 30-years-old early if they do not live with their parents."Of those, 2.6 million work in the private sector, so unless some corrective action is taken they are likely to be extremely harshly affected financially when compared to employees in the public sector," the authors of the report warned.
To date, there have been 65,872 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 7,993 deaths in the U.K., according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. "There would be tragic cases — in the current situation there is no riskless way forward," the authors said. "But the proposed policy's effects would be far, far smaller than those from any general release of the population."
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