Coronavirus: Sky's chesh looks at why Wuhan's recovery offers the UK some reasons to be cheerful
People have been confined entirely to their homes, with authorities delivering supplies. Thousands have died - some not just from COVID-19, but from other conditions that went untreated.
Wuhan still needed tens of thousands of medical workers drafted in from the rest of China, and the rapid construction of huge new hospitals and isolation facilities.Wuhan railway station is disinfected on Tuesday as authorities announced the city would re-open on 8 AprilAnd the lockdown came when Wuhan had suffered fewer deaths than the UK has now.
We were there on the ground on 23 January, when the city was cut off, and at the time it seemed an extraordinary measure. Now it is one being taken all around the world.Social distancing puts UK to the test That does not mean that a lockdown guarantees success, and the UK is unlikely to be as vigorous as authoritarian China.- a liberal democracy that has had remarkable success.
Here, people are still going to work, still going to restaurants, still going to bars. They have more cases of COVID-19 but far fewer deaths than the UK.
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